Quick Flask Server

A simple way to acess your Flask apps on the internet while running it on localhost.

Compatability

Python 3.6+ is required.

Installation

pip install quick-flask-server

Quickstart

1. Import with from quick_flask_server import run_with_ngrok
2. Add run_with_ngrok(app) to make your Flask app available upon running

# example.py
from flask import Flask
from quick_flask_server import run_with_ngrok

app = Flask(__name__)
run_with_ngrok(app)  # Start ngrok when app is run

@app.route("/")
def hello():
    return "Hello World!"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

Running the example:

python quick_flask_server/example.py
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Running on http://<random-address>.ngrok.io
 * Traffic stats available on http://127.0.0.1:4040 

You might also see this,

You can copy the ngrok URL also from here.

As shown in the above image ngrok has a web-interface which can be accessed at localhost:4040

Here is a sample image of the web interface,