Configure Flask dev server to be visible across the network

Question

I\'m not sure if this is Flask specific, but when I run an app in dev mode (http://localhost:5000), I cannot access it from other machines on the network (with

Answer 1

Create file .flaskenv in the project root directory.

The parameters in this file are typically:

FLASK_APP=app.py
FLASK_ENV=development
FLASK_RUN_HOST=[dev-host-ip]
FLASK_RUN_PORT=5000

If you have a virtual environment, activate it and do a pip install python-dotenv .

This package is going to use the .flaskenv file, and declarations inside it will be automatically imported across terminal sessions.

Then you can do flask run