blogging-website

AWESOME BLOG

Published on

Date 02/11/2020

Description

Awesome blog is a personal blogging website where you can create and share your opinions and other users can read and comment on them. The blog also has random quotes that inspire the users.

Author

Dennis Mutai

Features

As a user of the web application you will be able to:

See all submitted blogs
See random quotes
Create an account
Log in
Post a blog
Comment on a blog
See comments posted on each individual blog
Edit your profile i.e will be able to add a short bio about yourself and a profile picture

Specification

Behaviour	Input	Output
view blog post	sign up for account	sign in
view post	add post	submit
all post	view more	see comments and add post
add post	update	delete

Known Bugs

No current test for the application

Prerequisites

python3.6
virtual environment
pip

How to access it

You can access it by cloning the Repository

$ Open Terminal (Ctrl Alt T)
$ git clone link
$ cd directory-name(MYBLOG)
$ code .

Running the Application

Install virtual environment using $ python3.8 -m venv --without-pip virtual
Activate virtual environment using $ source virtual/bin/activate
Download pip in our environment using $ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python
Install all the dependencies from the requirements.txt file by running python3.8 pip install -r requirements.txt
Create os .environment file in the root of the folder and add the following code: export MAIL_USERNAME= export MAIL_PASSWORD= export SECRET_KEY= Edit the configuration instance in manage.py from development to production
To run the application, in your terminal: $ chmod a+x start.sh $ ./start.sh

Create DB

Create a psql databases
CREATE DATABASE myblog;
Create the tables and run the migrations:
pip install flask-migrate
python3 manage.py db init
python3 manage.py db migrate -m "Initial Migration"
python3 manage.py db upgrade

Technologies Used

Python3.8
Flask
HTML
Bootstrap This application is developed using Python3.6, Flask, HTML and Bootstrap

Support and Team

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DennisKipkirui/blogging-website