flask-social-blog-app: A Python repository from jackycsl

Implementation of Flask Web

This repo contains the source code to a complete social blogging applications with Flask, a python microframework from ground up.

This app is implemented based on miguelgrinberg O'Reilly book Flask Web Development

Demo app: https://cslapp.herokuapp.com/

Demo admin account: flask@demo.com; pwd: 123123123 Demo guest account: guest@demo.com; pwd: 123123123 Demo guest account: guest2@demo.com; pwd: 123123123

What's included

User Authentication
User Roles
User Profiles
Blog Posts
Followers
User Comments
API
Email
Unit Testing

Initialize a virtualenv

$ pip install virtualenv
$ virtualenv -p python3 env
$ source env/bin/activate

Install the dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Add Environment Variables

MAIL_USERNAME=GmailUsername
MAIL_PASSWORD=GmailPassword
SECRET_KEY=SuperRandomStringToBeUsedForEncryption

Other Key value pairs:

FLASKY_ADMIN: set to the default email for your first admin account (default is flasky@demo.com)
DEV_DATABASE_URL: set to a dev postgresql database url (default is data-dev.sqlite)
TEST_DATABASE_URL: set to a test postgresql database url (default is data-test.sqlite)
DATABASE_URL: set to a production postgresql database url (default is data.sqlite)

Create the database

$ python manage.py deploy

Run Server

python manage.py runserver

Deployment to heroku

$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: adam@example.com
Password (typing will be hidden):
Authentication successful.

$ heroku create flask-base-demo
Creating ⬢ flask-base-demo... done
https://flask-base-demo.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/flask-base-demo.git

Next we can run git push heroku master. This will push all your existing code to the heroku repository. Additionally, heroku will run commands found in your Procfile which has the following contents:

web: gunicorn manage:app
worker: python -u manage.py run_worker

recreate the database

heroku run python manage.py deploy