🛡️ Introducing flasksecforge: A Secure, Production-Ready Flask REST API Boilerplate with JWT Auth & Modular Structure

[Reprompts]

Hey Flask developers, API architects, and Python tinkerers! 👋

After seeing many developers reinvent the wheel every time they start a Flask backend project, I built flasksecforge — a ready-to-deploy, secure REST API boilerplate that blends best practices, modularity, and real-world readiness.

Whether you're building a full-stack app, prototyping an API, or teaching others how to work with Flask, this boilerplate gets you started with a clean, extensible structure 🚀

🔐 Core Features
🔑 JWT Authentication (Login, Register, Protected Routes)

🧩 Modular Blueprints (Auth, Users, Items)

🔃 SQLAlchemy + Marshmallow (ORM + Serialization)

📋 CRUD Sample Endpoints (Create, Read, Update, Delete)

🛠️ App Factory Pattern (Per-environment config support)

🧪 Health Check Endpoint (/health)

🔄 DB Migrations via Flask-Migrate

☁️ Gunicorn-ready for Production

📁 Structured Logging (access + error logs)

⚙️ Tech Stack
Python 3.7+

Flask

Flask-JWT-Extended

SQLAlchemy & Marshmallow

Gunicorn for production

CORS, Migrate, and more

📦 Quick Start

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up DB and migrate

export FLASK_ENV=development
flask db init
flask db migrate
flask db upgrade

Run locally

python run.py

Or deploy with Gunicorn

gunicorn -c gunicorn.conf.py run:app
🧰 Endpoints Overview
POST /auth/register – Register a new user

POST /auth/login – Get a JWT access token

GET /users/profile – View authenticated user profile (JWT protected)

GET /items/ – List all items

POST /items/ – Create new item (JWT protected)

PUT /items/ – Update an item (JWT protected)

DELETE /items/ – Delete an item (JWT protected)

GET /health – Simple status check

🔗 Links
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/reprompts/flasksecforge

🧑‍💼 LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14631875/

🐦 Twitter/X: @RepromptsQuest

✍️ Dev.to: https://dev.to/repromptsquest

🙌 Looking for Contributors & Feedback!
This project is open-source and built with teaching, scaling, and security in mind.
I'm looking for feedback, contributors, ideas, and use cases you want me to integrate next (Docker? OAuth2? Role-based access?).

⭐️ Star the repo, fork it, or drop a PR — let’s build Flask apps better, together!