Flask - render template asynchronously

Question

I\'m making a Flask app and I was wondering if I could render a template for a route, but redirect the user after a function is complete. Currently using Python 2.7 Here is my e

Answer 1

This sounds more like a client sided thing to me? Do you want something like a loading bar?

You could provide an ajax route which initiates heavy workload on the server side - while the client does show some progress. Once the workload finished you render a template which than gets loaded via ajax.

For asycn workload you could look into Celery, which is a great library for that. It even can do work on a seperate server...

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