Ask and Databases

How Ask handles database work.

Databases are easy to set up and easy to work with. Ask's design really shines when it comes to databases. Everything should be as simple and straightforward as possible. Ask reduces the needed boilerplate to get started to basically 0 lines, when compared to Flask.

Practical

• All functions, variables, etc. used when working with databases are called on the built-in global db variable.

Technical

• Ask uses SQLAlchemy behind the scenes. This can be useful to know when e.g. looking up errors.

• The default database for all Ask applications is SQLite, it is however possible to connect other databases, like e.g. MySQL.

• The database is by default stored in a file called db.db in your project's source directory.