Flask-SQLAlchemy

[fimion]

Since we're going to use SQLAlchemy, should we just go ahead and use the Flask-SQLAlchemy extension? is that going to mess us up at all?

[jrrickerson]

I think that should work fine. I've not used it yet myself but I imagine it adds a few nice features for integrating the two.

I've done a little with similar extensions like Flask-WTF and Flask-RESTful and had no issues there.

Just don't forget to update requirements.txt when you add dependencies!

[fimion]

okay, so i'm looking into DB stuff, and we're gonna need sql migrations, which sqlalchemy doesn't handle.

but seeing as how it's python, someone has already fixed that, which will mean a few more packages and how to handle the actual migration process.

I'm saying all of that right, correct?

[jrrickerson]

Correct on all accounts. I haven't had time to deep-dive, but I did come across this, which looked pretty promising:
http://alembic.zzzcomputing.com/en/latest/

[fimion]

cool. Working on login stuff now.