allysnyk/seeker

Seeker

This app is a forum for videogame guides where users can create communities based on their favorite games and help others by creating guides.

Project is currently hosted at:

https://gseeker-app.herokuapp.com/

Technologies Used:

• Flask/sqlAlchemy
• PostGres
• React
• Redux

Features:

• Communities
• Posts
• Comments with threading
• Join and unjoin communities
• Like posts

I made this website in one and a half weeks so heres a few features that I want to implement in the future.

• Search bar for better discovery of communities
• user profile customization
• image uploading with drag and drop to upload
• websockets for live updates
• editing and deleting comments
• infinite scroll

Main Page:

Community Page:

Post Page:

Comments:

How to run this project

1. Clone this repository (only this branch)

   git clone https://github.com/appacademy-starters/python-project-starter.git

2. Install dependencies

   pipenv install --dev -r dev-requirements.txt && pipenv install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file based on the example with proper settings for your development environment

4. Setup your PostgreSQL user, password and database and make sure it matches your .env file

5. Get into your pipenv, migrate your database, seed your database, and run your flask app

   pipenv shell

   flask db upgrade

   flask seed all

   flask run

6. To run the React App in development, checkout the README inside the react-app directory.

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IMPORTANT! If you add any python dependencies to your pipfiles, you'll need to regenerate your requirements.txt before deployment. You can do this by running:

pipenv lock -r > requirements.txt

ALSO IMPORTANT! psycopg2-binary MUST remain a dev dependency because you can't install it on apline-linux. There is a layer in the Dockerfile that will install psycopg2 (not binary) for us.

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Deploy to Heroku

1. Before you deploy, don't forget to run the following command in order to ensure that your production environment has all of your up-to-date dependencies. You only have to run this command when you have installed new Python packages since your last deployment, but if you aren't sure, it won't hurt to run it again.

   pipenv lock -r > requirements.txt

2. Create a new project on Heroku

3. Under Resources click "Find more add-ons" and add the add on called "Heroku Postgres"

4. Install the Heroku CLI

5. Run

   heroku login

6. Login to the heroku container registry

   heroku container:login

7. Update the REACT_APP_BASE_URL variable in the Dockerfile. This should be the full URL of your Heroku app: i.e. "https://flask-react-aa.herokuapp.com"

8. Push your docker container to heroku from the root directory of your project. (If you are using an M1 mac, follow these steps below instead, then continue on to step 9.) This will build the Dockerfile and push the image to your heroku container registry.

   heroku container:push web -a {NAME_OF_HEROKU_APP}

9. Release your docker container to heroku

   heroku container:release web -a gseeker-app

10. set up your database

    heroku run -a {NAME_OF_HEROKU_APP} flask db upgrade
    heroku run -a {NAME_OF_HEROKU_APP} flask seed all

11. Under Settings find "Config Vars" and add any additional/secret .env variables.

12. profit

For M1 Mac users

(Replaces Step 8)

1. Build image with linux platform for heroku servers. Replace {NAME_OF_HEROKU_APP} with your own tag:

   docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 -t gseeker-app .
   

2. Tag your app with the url for your apps registry. Make sure to use the name of your Heroku app in the url and tag name:

   docker tag gseeker-app registry.heroku.com/gseeker-app/web
   

3. Use docker to push the image to the Heroku container registry:

   docker push registry.heroku.com/gseeker-app/web
   
   heroku container:release web -a gseeker-app