Author: Nicholas Hunt-Walker
Deployment: https://flask-tasklist.herokuapp.com/
Python Versions: 3.6+ only
Navigate to a directory that you want to work in and clone down this repository.
$ git clone https://github.com/PythonToDoList/flask.git
Move into the cloned directory and start a new Python 3 virtual environment. You should be using Python 3.6 or later.
$ cd flask
flask $ python3 -m venv ENV
(ENV) flask $ source ENV/bin/activate
pip install this repository's requirements.txt.
Note: you will need Postgres running locally for this application.
(ENV) flask $ pip install -r requirements.txt
In your virtual environment, set as environment variables the URL to the Postgres database that you intend to use for development, as well as the FLASK_APP environment variable with the path to the repository's app.py file.
For something closer to bulletproof, use the absolute path to the file.
Note that on my machine I don't need a username or password to access my postgres databases, but your own results may vary.
export DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost:5432/flask_todo
export FLASK_APP=$VIRTUAL_ENV/../flask_todo/app.py
Initialize your database using the provided initializedb.py file.
If you want to be able to drop tables before you create them, set an environment variable of DEVELOPMENT to 'True'.
(ENV) flask $ python initializedb.py
In order to run the application, type flask run.
If all your stuff is configured properly, your development server should be running on port 5000.
Sources: - http://blog.luisrei.com/articles/flaskrest.html - http://flask-httpauth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13825278/python-request-with-authentication-access-token - http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/30/ - http://exploreflask.com/en/latest/preface.html