Refactored Flask Application

📅 2025-05-12 — Session: Refactored Flask Application

🕒 23:15–00:00
🏷️ Labels: Flask, Python, Refactoring, Web Development, Error Handling, Logging
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to enhance the Flask application by refactoring key components to improve maintainability, scalability, and performance.

Key Activities

• Refactored main.py to integrate OAuth, Firebase, and session management.
• Cleaned up OAuth login logic into a maintainable module.
• Implemented a modular feedback submission route with defensive programming and centralized logging.
• Refactored submit_answer function for cleaner logic and enhanced logging.
• Refined boilerplate for the exercises module with organized imports.
• Consolidated teacher time request logic for robustness and input validation.
• Enhanced a Python script for CSV data import into MySQL with improved error handling.
• Resolved a circular import issue by using current_app instead of direct imports.

Achievements

• Achieved a clean and testable architecture for the Flask application.
• Improved authentication and session management.
• Enhanced error handling and logging across the application.

Pending Tasks

• Further testing of the refactored modules to ensure stability.
• Documentation updates to reflect changes in the codebase.