Flask Material Kit

Open-Source seed project generated by AppSeed in Flask Framework on top of Material Kit design. Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, Material Kit 2 is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps. Material Kit 2 is built with over 60 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

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Built with App Generator, timestamp 2024-09-02 10:17

✅ Up-to-date dependencies
✅ Database: SQLite, MySql
- Silent fallback to SQLite
✅ DB Tools: SQLAlchemy ORM, Flask-Migrate (schema migrations)
✅ Session-Based authentication (via flask_login), Forms validation
✅ Flask-Minify (page compression)

✨ Set up the MySql Database

Note: Make sure your Mysql server is properly installed and accessible.

Step 1 - Create the MySql Database to be used by the app

Create a new MySql database
Create a new user and assign full privilegies (read/write)

Step 2 - Edit the .env to match your MySql DB credentials. Make sure DB_ENGINE is set to mysql.

DB_ENGINE : mysql
DB_NAME : default value = appseed_db
DB_HOST : default value = localhost
DB_PORT : default value = 3306
DB_USERNAME: default value = appseed_db_usr
DB_PASS : default value = pass

Here is a sample:

# .env sample

DEBUG=False                 # False enables the MySql Persistence

DB_ENGINE=mysql             # Database Driver
DB_NAME=appseed_db          # Database Name
DB_USERNAME=appseed_db_usr  # Database User
DB_PASS=STRONG_PASS_HERE    # Password 
DB_HOST=localhost           # Database HOST, default is localhost 
DB_PORT=3306                # MySql port, default = 3306

✨ How to use it

Download the code

$ # Get the code
$ git clone https://github.com/appseed-projects/91346abf-9ec9-424e-b5ce-44a59cabec6c.git
$ cd 91346abf-9ec9-424e-b5ce-44a59cabec6c

👉 Set Up for `Unix`, `MacOS`

Install modules via VENV

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Set Up Flask Environment

$ export FLASK_APP=run.py
$ export FLASK_ENV=development

Start the app

$ flask run

At this point, the app runs at http://127.0.0.1:5000/.

👉 Set Up for `Windows`

Install modules via VENV (windows)

$ virtualenv env
$ .\env\Scripts\activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Set Up Flask Environment

$ # CMD 
$ set FLASK_APP=run.py
$ set FLASK_ENV=development
$
$ # Powershell
$ $env:FLASK_APP = ".\run.py"
$ $env:FLASK_ENV = "development"

Start the app

$ flask run

At this point, the app runs at http://127.0.0.1:5000/.

👉 Create Users

By default, the app redirects guest users to authenticate. In order to access the private pages, follow this set up:

Start the app via flask run
Access the registration page and create a new user:
- http://127.0.0.1:5000/register
Access the sign in page and authenticate
- http://127.0.0.1:5000/login

✨ Code-base structure

The project is coded using blueprints, app factory pattern, dual configuration profile (development and production) and an intuitive structure presented bellow:

< PROJECT ROOT >
   |
   |-- apps/
   |    |
   |    |-- home/                           # A simple app that serve HTML files
   |    |    |-- routes.py                  # Define app routes
   |    |
   |    |-- authentication/                 # Handles auth routes (login and register)
   |    |    |-- routes.py                  # Define authentication routes  
   |    |    |-- models.py                  # Defines models  
   |    |    |-- forms.py                   # Define auth forms (login and register) 
   |    |
   |    |-- static/
   |    |    |-- <css, JS, images>          # CSS files, Javascripts files
   |    |
   |    |-- templates/                      # Templates used to render pages
   |    |    |-- includes/                  # HTML chunks and components
   |    |    |    |-- navigation.html       # Top menu component
   |    |    |    |-- sidebar.html          # Sidebar component
   |    |    |    |-- footer.html           # App Footer
   |    |    |    |-- scripts.html          # Scripts common to all pages
   |    |    |
   |    |    |-- layouts/                   # Master pages
   |    |    |    |-- base-fullscreen.html  # Used by Authentication pages
   |    |    |    |-- base.html             # Used by common pages
   |    |    |
   |    |    |-- accounts/                  # Authentication pages
   |    |    |    |-- login.html            # Login page
   |    |    |    |-- register.html         # Register page
   |    |    |
   |    |    |-- home/                      # UI Kit Pages
   |    |         |-- index.html            # Index page
   |    |         |-- 404-page.html         # 404 page
   |    |         |-- *.html                # All other pages
   |    |    
   |  config.py                             # Set up the app
   |    __init__.py                         # Initialize the app
   |
   |-- requirements.txt                     # App Dependencies
   |
   |-- .env                                 # Inject Configuration via Environment
   |-- run.py                               # Start the app - WSGI gateway
   |
   |-- ************************************************************************