Flask
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“90% of the SPAs I use could be Django/Rails/Flask apps with no noticeable difference”
“without the robust Flask ecosystem”
Show 3 more
“Flask for its elegant simplicity without hidden conventions”
“that hasn't stopped it from becoming the 10th [1] or 11th [2] most popular web framework”
Caveats and dissent
“In my opinion the higher complexity of the Flask version is no way justified”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Design Engineer / Frontend-Leaning Full Stack Developersenior software engineer, independent consultant, 15+ yrsAI engineer, nearly 2 years experienceFull-stack engineer seeking full-time workBackend and product architectEx-founder/CTO and 20-year fullstack product engineerdeveloper of the beat makersenior full-stack developer, 15+ yearsbuilds customer portal bomquote.com
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) 2 mentions
- Django 6 2 mentions
- Websites Should Be Printable 1 mention
Data: flask.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“Octomode is a collective editing space for PDF making, using Etherpad, Paged.js and Flask.”
“Django, FastAPI, Flask, Odoo”
“Backend: Node.js (Express), Python (Flask), Ruby on Rails”
“primarily backend work in Python (Django/FastAPI/Flask)”
“Flask/PostGIS backend”
“A few years ago I rewrote it in Flask (Python)”
“Technologies - Python, REST API, Flask, Langchain”
“Django/FastAPI/Flask”
“Flask”
“90% of the SPAs I use could be Django/Rails/Flask apps with no noticeable difference”
“Python/Flask/Postgres/Celery”
“FastAPI, Django, Flask”
“without the robust Flask ecosystem”
“Node.js, Spring Boot, Flask”
“Flask”
“And there were mentions of Flask in the logs”
“It's got Python/Flask on the backend”
“Technologies: React, Next.js, JavaScript, Python, Django, Flask, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, PHP, Docker, Github Actions, Claude Code, Cursor”
“Technologies: Python, Flask, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy”
“Python+Flask+Sqlite for my own use”
“Python/Flask + SQLite + NetworkX on the backend”
“Stack is Flask, vanilla JS (admin UI only), PostgreSQL, deployed on Fly.io.”
“I built this using Flask + Vanilla JS.”
“I do primarily backend work in Python (Django/FastAPI/Flask) and PHP (Laravel/Drupal)”
“In my opinion the higher complexity of the Flask version is no way justified”
“Built with Python/Flask”
“Learn Flask and experiment with scaling”
“vibe code my own helpdesk with Python/Flask”
“I use Flask specifically to process audio with librosa”
“Core: Node.js, React, Python (Flask, Scrapy), PHP (Laravel, WordPress)”
“moved my web ui from express js to flask”
“Flask for the web server”
“Flask”
“A hundred Flask router tests is 2.64ms.”
“Flask, HTMX, Alpine, and Tailwind”
“It runs on Python with Flask and Sqalchemy”
“Flask for its elegant simplicity without hidden conventions”
“Flask is my go-to”
“We use flask and go at work.”
“My Rails / Flask + background worker”