Why use Flask’s url_for?

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From Flask’s documentation,

flask.url_for(endpoint, **values)

Generates a URL to the given endpoint with the method provided.

Variable arguments that are unknown to the target endpoint are
appended to the generated URL as query arguments. If the value of a
query argument is None, the whole pair is skipped. In case blueprints
are active you can shortcut references to the same blueprint by
prefixing the local endpoint with a dot (.).

Now, instead of specifying static urls to reach an endpoint, you can use url_for which does a reverse match for the endpoint. It is particularly useful when you have arguments which you might want to specify at runtime.

{{ url_for('events', user_id=user.id, year=2013) }}

/events/1388224/2013

The paths generated are always absolute (start with a “https://stackoverflow.com/”) so that they work regardless of the current URL. They also take into account if the application is mounted at a prefix rather than the root (like “/myapp/events/1/2013”).

The _external=True argument can be used to generate URLs with the server name so that they can be used externally, such as in email messages.

View your events: {{ url_for("events", user_id=user.id, year=2013, _external=True) }}

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