adri78/Flask-on-Linode

Deploying Flask App on Linode

Simple Flask CRUD Web Application

This is a very simple Flask Application where user can log in and create posts.

Application Breakdown

This is the breakdown of a fairly simple Flask Application using a SQLite database

Flask-on-Linode
│   README.md
│   FlaskDeployment.md
│   .gitignore
│
└───flask_app
│   │   __init__.py
│   │   forms.py
│   │   models.py
│   │   routes.py
│   │   requriments.txt
│   │   site.db
│   │
│   └───static
│   │   │   ...
│   │
│   └───templates
│   │   │   ...

Flask Frameworks

These are the Flask libraries used in this Project. You'll find these in the requirements.txt file.

• Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Flask-Security
• Flask-WTF

Deploying Locally

Lets walk through setting up your development environment and deploying this application on your local machine

1. Install Python, pip, and virtualenv

• Python
• pip
• Virtualenv

2. Clone this repo and CD into the projects directory

git clone https://github.com/abalarin/Flask-on-Linode.git flask_app_project
cd flask_app_project

3. Create and activate a virtualenv

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

4. Install packages

pip install -r flask_app/requirements.txt

5. Create Flask environment variables

export FLASK_APP=flask_app/__init__.py
export FLASK_ENV=development

6. Run it

flask run

Next Steps

• Deploy this application on to a Production Environment