BLOG APP

An application that enables you to view, create and comment on blogs

27/04/2019

By Wambita

Description

This is an app that allows one to login to his or her accoount or create another account. it also enables one to view someones blog and comment on it and also subscribe to it . It also sends the user an email when he or she has subscribed or signed up in the application.

Link to live site

https://Wambita-blog.herokuapp.com/

Setup/Installation Requirements

Technologies Used

HTML
CSS
Flask-Bootstrap4
Python3.6
Heroku
Flask

Clone the repo and checkout into the project folder.

git clone https://github.com/Wambita/blog.git
cd blog

Create and activate the virtual environment

python3.6 -m venv virtual
source virtual/bin/activate

Setting up environment variables

Create a 'start.sh' file and paste the following where appropriate:

export SECRET_KEY='<secret_key>'
export MAIL_USERNAME='<username>'
export MAIL_PASSWORD='<password>'
python3.6 manage.py server

Install the dependencies

Install dependancies that will create an environment for the app to run.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make the file executable

chmod a+x start.sh

Open the file in the terminal

./start.sh

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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