Does Flask SocketIO (on eventlet) modify regular flask routes?

[theahura]

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Hey Miguel,

Thank you for being so responsive! Complete game changer when it comes to using this library 😄

I had another question.
Some background: I'm running Flask SocketIO using eventlet as a backend, on kubernetes. I'm noticing that my kubernetes liveness probes end up failing whenever I use the socket. I would have thought that any 'normal' flask routes would be unaffected by the socket.

1. What's going on under the hood? I know eventlet makes everything into an eventloop -- does that impact normal flask routes as well?
2. Is there a way to have normal flask routes behave as normal, and have sockets behave separately/in isolation?

Thanks in advance!

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[miguelgrinberg]

I know eventlet makes everything into an eventloop -- does that impact normal flask routes as well?

Yes, the whole process runs in async mode.

Is there a way to have normal flask routes behave as normal, and have sockets behave separately/in isolation?

You can separate your application into two servers that run separately.