Series: Building a Social Network with Flask & Stream â Part 10
Blog post from Stream
In the tenth installment of a tutorial series on building a full-stack application using Flask and Stream, the focus is on enhancing the app's aesthetics and functionality by incorporating features like link previews and notification counts. The tutorial guides users through styling enhancements, including adding link previews with Open Graph protocol, auto-populating title and description fields for improved user experience, and integrating images into the database model. It also covers updating Stream Feeds and using Python-OpenGraph to manage existing content. Additionally, the tutorial explains how to implement a notification count badge, enhance CSS for a polished look, and manage dynamic content previews using JavaScript and jQuery. The guide concludes by highlighting the upcoming deployment and configuration steps in the next tutorial.