flask-starter-site

• basic flask site with user login and bootstrap for rapid python web app prototyping
• check out Treehouse for some great flask tutorials. They eventually led me to this repo!
• these steps are for Mac OS X
• this uses a SQLite and peewee. A good tool for prototyping. Probably not production :)

make a virtual environment

• mkdir my-flask-projects
• cd my-flask-projects
• python -m venv flask-venv
• source flask-venv/bin/activate

get the code into a directory

• git clone https://github.com/josephjguerra/flask-starter-site.git

get the required packages

• pip install peewee
• pip install flask
• pip install flask-login
• pip install flask-bcrypt
• pip install flask-wtf

see the app!

• cd flask-starter-site
• python app.py
• go to http://127.0.0.1:5000/ to see the starter site!
• register a user (or a few)
• login

now what?

• learn more about flask
• expand this starter site to prototype your next big idea
• try connecting a real database
• host your project on:
  • pythonanywhere - my preference
  • Heroku - also straightforward with heroku toolbelt
  • DigitalOcean
  • AWS
• the sky's the limit!

cleaning up

• control + C will stop the app from running
• deactivate in your my-flask-projects directory to stop your virtual environment