/FlaskWeatherApp

A simple Dynamic Weather App built using Flask python framework

Primary LanguageSCSSBSD 2-Clause "Simplified" LicenseBSD-2-Clause

Flask Weather App

A simple dynamic weather app built using Flask and deployed on Heroku using Gunicorn

Objective

The motive to create this project was to write a blog, teaching developers about Flask and it's Functionalities!

Blog can be found here

Live Website can be found here

Things taught

  1. Creating and maintaining virtual environments using pipenv
  2. How does routes work in Flask
  3. How to render HTML Templates in Flask
  4. Interacting with public APIs
  5. Passing data from Python to HTML
  6. How to get and process user input
  7. How to serve static files(CSS, JS, images etc) in Flask
  8. How to work with environment variables in python
  9. Deploying your Flask app on Heroku

Setup

You can either use pipenv to install a deterministic build from the Pipfile.lock like so

pipenv install

OR

You can use environment manger if your choice and install packages using the requirements.txt like so

pip install -r requirements.txt