Title: Pet project: Shopping Lists published
Slug: pet-project-shopping-lists-published
Date: 2016-12-11 00:50:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Development, Python
og_image: https://images.kartones.net/posts/screenshots/shopping_lists_screenshot.jpg
Description: A pet project, 'Shopping Lists', a simple Flask app and Python file I/O, which has been migrated from C#/ASP.NET to Python + Flask.

As I'm moving towards fully removing all .NET projects I had, I've spend some time migrating some C#/ASP.NET code over to Python + Flask. One of the projects that could be of some interest, if only as a sample of a simple Flask app and Python file I/O, is my **Shopping Lists** pet project.

It's a quick & dirty web solution but we use it at home almost daily so it serves its purpose. As at least my colleage [@Saski](https://twitter.com/saski) asked me if I was going to publish the source code, now that it's migrated to Python, you can find it [at my Github](https://github.com/Kartones/PythonAssorted/tree/master/shopping-lists), alongside some simple instructions of how to setup and use it.

![Screenshots](https://images.kartones.net/posts/screenshots/shopping_lists_screenshot.jpg)

It was one of my new approaches to development, keeping things minimalistic and simple: the "database" are plain text files, it has minimal functionality but it works in mobile (as will be where it will be used most frequently), and while is not a code I would showcase, publishing it can help me in the future to remember some basic Flask routing and redirects syntax, reading and writing files, etcetera.