Flask Blog

A very basic blog written in python and flask.

The initial base was app created by following the excellent tutorial written by Abdelhadi Dyouri here


Setup

  • Create the initial project folder
cd /projects/
mkdir flask_blog
cd flask_blog
  • Create a new python virtual environment & activate it
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
  • Install required python libraries
pip install flask
  • Clone the flask_blog repo
git clone https://github.com/alittlebroken/flask_blog.git
  • Create the sqlite3 database
python init_db.py
  • Run the flask app
export FLASK_APP=app.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
flask run
  • Copy and paste the URL provided into your favourite browsers address bar