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In the dim glow of my computer screen, after hours of wrestling with a particularly stubborn bug, it finally happened. The lines of code aligned, the program ran seamlessly, and I felt that rush of triumph. Join me as I revisit these eureka moments and unravel the mysteries behind the code.

I write about my experiences and journey as a software developer, about coding topics that I've struggled with in the hopes that you don't have to, and about things I've learned that I think are awesome. This space is a melting pot of tutorials, discussions on tools, and explorations of intriguing software development concepts. Enjoy!

Cookies with the Flask web framework

October 18, 2022 / 12 min read / 2,951 , 1 , 0

Last Updated: May 12, 2024

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Cookies! 🍪🍪 Tasty snack or valuable web development tool? 🤷‍♂️ For our context today, cookies are small pieces of data sent from the server to the client. The client’s browser stores cookies locally and then sends the cookies back to the server with every request. Cookies are used for a variety of purposes, including session management (who’s logged in?), keeping track of user settings (use dark mode?), and tracking user behavior (website analytics, ad targeting). In this tutorial, we’ll talk about how to manage cookies with the Flask web framework. We’ll go over setting, updating, retrieving, and deleting cookies in Flask routes.

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