Welcome to Flask-Identity!¶
Flask-Identity allows you to quickly add common security mechanisms to your Flask application. They include:
Session based authentication
User and role management
Password hashing
Basic HTTP authentication
Token based authentication
Login tracking
JSON/Ajax Support
Why create Flask-Identity?¶
Currently there are so many security middleware for Flask, most them depends on many extensions/libraries. It’s easy to start but hard to configure because some options are defined by the dependencies.
Flask-Identity is a lightweight security extension with all-in-one configurations and less third dependencies, some codes are direct merged from other successful open-source libraries:
* `Flask-Login <https://flask-login.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_
* `Flask-Security <https://flask-security.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_