A basic blog application built with flask, based on Corey Schafer's tutorial series on YouTube.
Environment:
I developed this app in a Python virtual environment, which creates a .venv in the directory.
After creating one, use source .venv/bin/activate to isolate the application, and deactivate to turn off the virtual environment.
I also have the application's most important variables, such as SECRET_KEY and FLASK_APP, to my .bash_profile config file so that security-sensitive data is not hard-coded, others can generate different values for their own uses, and runtime is smoother due to things being already set up.
Installation:
In addition to flask, this application uses several dependencies and libraries, which are included in the requirements.txt file. Feel free to read through and\or update them as necessary.
To install the packages in the file, simply type pip3 install -r requirements.txt on the command line.
Setup:
- Type
flask runto start the server. - By default, the server is not in debug or production mode.
Behavior:
This app uses ./blog_app/static/profile_pics to store every account's profile pic, and ./instance for database storage. Example instances are there, but different content for each can be made for a separate instance of the site.