Use Flask and SQLalchemy, not Flask-SQLAlchemy!
Avoiding Flask-SQLAlchemy in Flask apps
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7 min readMay 5, 2020
By: Edward Krueger Data Scientist and Instructor and Douglas Franklin Teaching Assistant and Technical Writer.
In this article, we will cover using Flask with SQLAlchemy and some reasons to avoid Flask-SQLAlchemy. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate the benefits of having SQLAlchemy models and database connections that exist independently of an app.