Flask App Data Dashboard

This is a python Flask app data dashboard that pulls data from the World Bank API. The visualizations are made with the plotly library.

Getting Started

To get the app working locally:

Clone or download the repository locally
Within the world_bank_api_dashboard directory, create a virtual Python environment with the Terminal command python3 -m venv flaskapp where flaskapp is the name of your environment. You can choose any name.
Activate the virtual environment with the command source flaskapp/bin/activate
Then run the command pip install -r requirements.txt
Next, set the FLASK_APP variable to worldbank.py by running the following command export FLASK_APP=worldbank.py.
And finally, run the command python -m flask run to start the app
The terminal will output the local web address and port where the app is running. As an example, this might be http://127.0.0.1:5000/. Now, open a web browser and go to that web address.

You will need Python3 installed on your local machine.

Flask apps can be deployed to a variety of platforms. Here is an example for deploying the web app with Heroku.

Install the Heroku command line interface
Then, in the command line enter heroku login and enter your account name and password
Cd into the world_bank_api_dashboard repository folder
In the command line, enter heroku create
Then enter git push heroku master
And finally 'heroku open'