flask-peewee

provides a layer of integration between the flask <https://flask.palletsprojects.com/>_ web framework and the peewee orm <https://docs.peewee-orm.com/>_.

batteries included:

• admin interface
• authentication
• rest api

requirements:

• flask <https://github.com/pallets/flask>_
• peewee <https://github.com/coleifer/peewee>_
• wtforms <https://github.com/wtforms/wtforms>_
• wtf-peewee <https://github.com/coleifer/wtf-peewee>_
• python 3.8 or greater

check out the documentation <https://flask-peewee.readthedocs.io/>_.

admin interface

influenced heavily by the django <https://djangoproject.com>_ admin, provides easy create/edit/delete functionality for your project's models.

.. image:: https://media.charlesleifer.com/blog/photos/im-1783454777-579.png

or you can use one of the themes. Here is the crux theme:

.. image:: https://media.charlesleifer.com/blog/photos/fp-crux-full.png

rest api

provides a RESTful interface for your project's models.

::

curl localhost:5000/api/user/
{
  "meta": {
    "model": "user",
    "next": "",
    "object_count": 2,
    "page": 1,
    "page_count": 1,
    "previous": ""
  },
  "objects": [
    {
      "username": "admin",
      "admin": true,
      "join_date": "2025-09-16T18:34:49",
      "active": true,
      "id": 1
    },
    {
      "username": "coleifer",
      "admin": false,
      "join_date": "2025-09-16T18:35:56",
      "active": true,
      "id": 2
    }
  ]
}

installing

::

pip install flask-peewee

example app

the project ships with an example app, which is a silly twitter clone. to start the example app, cd into the "example" directory and execute the run_example.py script::

cd example/
python run_example.py

if you would like to test out the admin area, log in as "admin/admin" and navigate to:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/admin/

you can check out the REST api at the following url:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/message/