Flask: Run Hello World

In order to run this we need to set the environment variable FLASK_APP to the name of the file without the extension. We can also set the FLASK_DEBUG environment variable to 1 tuning on the debug-mode, but this is not required for this example.

Then we execute flask run.

It is a bit different how you do this on Linux or Mac vs. on MS Windows.

In either case once flask is running you can use your browser to visit your new web application on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ You can also use curl on the command line to see the content of the web page.

Once you have enough, you can hit Ctr-C to stop the program.

Linux/Mac: 


$ export FLASK_APP=app
$ export FLASK_DEBUG=1
$ flask run

or 


FLASK_APP=app FLASK_DEBUG=1 flask run

Visit: http://127.0.0.1:5000/
curl http://localhost:5000/

Windows on the command line or in the terminal of Pycharm: 


set FLASK_APP=app
set FLASK_DEBUG=1
flask run

Other parameters 


$ FLASK_APP=echo.py FLASK_DEBUG=1  flask run --port 8080 --host 0.0.0.0