Cheat Sheet

Not every visit to the documentation needs to be a full lesson. Sometimes you just want the command pattern, the flag, and a little reassurance that you are not inventing a workflow that makes no sense.

Naming Conventions

• Views use dotted names and follow plural resource naming (for example, posts.comments.images.show or components.buttons).

• Controllers use PascalCase (Upper CamelCase) and are singular, ending in Controller (for example, RecipeCommentController).

• Models use PascalCase (Upper CamelCase) and are singular (for example, Recipe, Comment, Image).

Common Patterns

Pattern	What it does
flask new myproject	Scaffold a new Flask project with a database and migrations.
flask new myproject --no-db	Scaffold a Flask project without the database packages, models, or migrations.
flask make:view about	Create a template only.
flask make:view about -rc	Create a template and wire a route and controller.
flask make:view mains.about -rc	Keep the template under mains while still generating the public route /about.
flask make:view recipes.index -rcm	Start a recipe resource with a list page, route, controller, and model.
flask make:view recipes.show -rc	Add a detail page to the existing recipe resource.
flask make:view recipes.create -rcm	Add a GET action that renders a recipe form template.
flask make:view recipes.store -rcm	Add a POST action that wires behavior without creating a template.
flask make:view recipes.comments.index -rcm	Create a nested comments resource under recipes.
flask make:controller RecipeController --crud	Generate RESTful controller methods, routes, and templates for recipes.
flask make:controller RecipeController -m	Create the controller and infer a matching model from the controller name.
flask make:controller ShoppingListController --crud --model ShoppingList	Keep a multi-word model name together while generating RESTful scaffolding.
flask make:controller RecipeIngredientController --crud -m --nest	Force the nested model interpretation for a controller-first --crud flow.
flask make:model Recipe	Create and register a single model scaffold.
flask make:model Recipe --crud	Create the model and scaffold the controller, routes, and templates around it.
flask make:model ShoppingList --crud --flat	Force a flat RESTful structure for a model name that could also be nested.
flask make:model RecipeIngredient --crud --nest	Force a nested RESTful structure for a model name that could also be flat.