Flask migrate allows you to do database migrations using Alendic, which is the migration engine for SQL alchemy. Flask HTTP auth will give you decorators that prevent you from having to deal with the headers 100%. So you can do everything in Python land.Python Sock it, IO is one of my two non flask specific projects. It's a general purpose Sock it,.IO server. I would like to invite anyone who wishes to write a wrapper for other frameworks such as Pyramid or bottle.