Connect your Flask app to a database using Flask-SQLAlchemy.
Get set up locally in two steps:
Replace the values in .env.example with your values and rename this file to .env:
FLASK_APP
: Entry point of your application; should bewsgi.py
.FLASK_ENV
: The environment in which to run your application; eitherdevelopment
orproduction
.SECRET_KEY
: Randomly generated string of characters used to encrypt your app's data.SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI
: SQLAlchemy connection URI to a SQL database.
Remember never to commit secrets saved in .env files to Github.
Get up and running with make deploy
:
$ git clone https://github.com/hackersandslackers/flask-sqlalchemy-tutorial.git
$ cd flask-sqlalchemy-tutorial
$ make deploy
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