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Quickstart!

Flask is one of the most famous Python-based Web frameworks.

Here is the code provided in the Flask documentation quickstart:

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello, World!'

Let's also see how we can do the same thing in MinHTTP.

To do this though, you need a few more steps:

  1. cd into the MinHTTP directory.
cd minhttp
  1. Create a new file called app.py and add the following code:
from minhttpserver import MinHTTPServer
from response import text_response

app = MinHTTPServer(host="localhost", port=8080)

@app.get("/")
def hello_world(request):
    return text_response("Hello, World!")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()
  1. Run the server:
python app.py

Voila! You have a simple web server running on http://localhost:8080 that returns Hello, World! when you visit localhost:8080/. You can check it with your browser, or with HTTP tools like HTTPie!

Note

In this small demo the SSL/TLS is not enabled. So, be sure you are using HTTP instead of HTTPS when you are testing. We will talk about enabling SSL/TLS in later sections.