BryanChasko/flask_bryanchasko_python_website_2024

Bryan Chasko's Flask Website 🌟

This project is a website built using Flask, Python, HTML templates, and AWS S3 for deployment. The intent is to utilize as much python as possible throughout the website.

Next Steps - Routing & setting up custom domain with route53

Table of Contents 📜

• Overview
• Project Structure
• Installation
• Usage
• Deployment
• Contributing
• License

Project Structure 📂

The main directories and files include:

• app.py: Flask application setup and routing
• templates/: HTML templates for different sections
• build/: Directory containing the built HTML files
• README.md: Project overview and instructions (you're reading it!)

Installation 🚀

1. Clone the repository.
2. Set up a virtual environment: python3 -m venv foo_venv. i.e., python3 -m venv flask_bryanchasko_venv
3. Activate the virtual environment: source foo_venv/bin/activate i.e., source flask_bryanchasko_venv/bin/activate when done with your virtual environment session run deactivate
4. Install the dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt.

Usage 🖥️

To run the Flask app locally:

python3 app.py

Build

flask-freeze will create a "build" folder with the built flask project. you're ready to sync the build folder contents to s3.

Deploy to s3 static website hosting

from your build directory, run:

aws s3 sync . s3://bryanchaskoflasksite2024/ --delete