Enhancement: before_first_request

None of the solutions from Run a function once on bottle.py startup are perfect.

Is there a before_first_request (like in Flask) planned for 0.13? (Or maybe another solution is already present in 0.12?)

@app.before_first_request
def test():
    print("hello")

[defnull]

Bottle also ‘lies’ in its run() and prints Listening to ... before the server adapter is actually loaded. I think that’s forgivable 😃

[josephernest]

Thanks @defnull! Oh good to know it’s deprecated also for Flask. You’re right: I don’t need it. I thought I needed to wait for the server to be ready to take requests before launching chrome.exe http://127.0.0.1/, but in fact the problem I was encountering was somewhere else: https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/issues/1389. Solved!