Running in development mode

You can activate development mode by running ask with the -d or --dev flag. This will give you some development and debugging related console messages. For example, development mode will show you full error messages without any special formating or parsing.

Running Ask in development mode will also activate development mode for the local Flask testing server.

You can also activate extra development mode. This mode is used when working on Ask itself. Run Ask with the -xd or --extra-dev flag to activate it. This turns off the appending of initial Flask boilerplate code to the output app.py file. This will cause errors in the console.