Our tech stack will include:
- SQLAlchemy ORM to be our ORM library of choice
- PostgreSQL as our database of choice
- Python3 and Flask as our server language and server framework
- Flask-Migrate for creating and running schema migrations
- HTML, CSS, and Javascript with Bootstrap 3 for our website's frontend
├── README.md
├── app.py *** the main driver of the app. Includes your SQLAlchemy models.
"python app.py" to run after installing dependences
├── config.py *** Database URLs, CSRF generation, etc
├── error.log
├── forms.py *** Your forms
├── requirements.txt *** The dependencies we need to install with "pip3 install -r requirements.txt"
├── static
│ ├── css
│ ├── font
│ ├── ico
│ ├── img
│ └── js
└── templates
├── errors
├── forms
├── layouts
└── pagesFirst, install Flask if you haven't already.
$ cd ~
$ sudo pip3 install Flask
To start and run the local development server,
- Initialize and activate a virtualenv:
$ cd YOUR_PROJECT_DIRECTORY_PATH/
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate
- Install the dependencies:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run the development server:
$ export FLASK_APP=myapp
$ export FLASK_ENV=development # enables debug mode
$ python3 app.py
- Navigate to Home page http://localhost:5000