Roger, after Jolly Roger, is a script to quickly get a simple Flask application skeleton up-and-running, with jQuery, Bootstrap, and Font Awesome installed and ready to use.
I find this setup useful for quick prototyping of my ideas, but building it up manually each time for every such project is time-consuming, repetitive, and annoying. The aim of this script is to automate these boilerplate actions to get to the interesting part quickly.
I recommend you put the script in ~/bin or something of the sort, so that it's accessible from any directory. Then run it from the parent directory where you want to store the newly created app.
./roger.sh project_name [python_path]- project_name - The name of the project of course
- python_path - The path to the Python executable to be used in the virtualenv (see below); if omitted the default
pythonaccessible from$PATHis used
The script:
- Creates a suitable directory structure for storing a basic Flask webapp
- Creates a Python virtualenv
- Installs Flask and its dependencies into the virtualenv
- Creates skeleton Flask app with a base Jinja2 template that loads the libraries below
- Installs these Bower-managed frameworks:
- jQuery 1.x
- Bootstrap 4.x (latest alpha)
- Font Awesome (latest)
- Initializes a git repository and prepares the initial commit
roger.sh is a simple shell script, so feel free to modify it to fit your needs. It's only been tested on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), so no guarantees are made for it working elsewhere. Fixes or enhancements to the code are always welcome.
MIT. See LICENSE for the full text.