# JackStouffer/Flask-Foundation

A solid foundation for your flask app

Repository: https://github.com/JackStouffer/Flask-Foundation
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flask-foundation
Homepage: https://jackstouffer.com/flask-foundation/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-05-01T22:49:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4735, "days_push": 1220, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1277, forks 144 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.311948+00:00)

## What it is
Flask Foundation is a starter template/boilerplate for building Flask web applications following community best practices. It bundles blueprints, SQLAlchemy models, Flask-Login, Flask-Cache, Flask-Assets, WTForms, and pytest fixtures while remaining agnostic about deployment and production environments.

## Use cases
- start a new flask web app with best practices
- flask project skeleton with sqlalchemy and blueprints
- boilerplate for flask with login and forms
- production-ready flask app structure
- flask starter template not tied to a deployment method

## When to choose
- you are starting a new Flask website or webapp and want a well-structured foundation
- you want prewired SQLAlchemy, authentication, caching, and testing setup
- you need a template that does not assume a specific production environment

## When to avoid
- you use a different web framework than Flask
- you need a maintained, actively updated starter (the project is largely in maintenance)
- you want a full admin interface, database migrations, or WSGI setup included out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-framework, orm, auth, caching, templating, testing
- domain: web-development, backend, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: flask, boilerplate, starter-template, sqlalchemy, bootstrap, cookiecutter, boilerplate

## Member repositories
- JackStouffer/Flask-Foundation (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.311948+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:33:18.247890+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/JackStouffer/Flask-Foundation (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.311948+00:00, sha 98954df248f1)
  - homepage: https://jackstouffer.com/flask-foundation/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:38.910109+00:00, sha b1add7ced0d6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.