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Visual Alchemist is a web app to seamlessly create sqlalchemy models by dragging/dropping objects in a canvas.

Presently, the tool just automates the code creation to build the corresponding sqlite database. Following features are coming soon:

• Implement joins and relations by drag/drop.
• Authentication/Sign-up.
• Ability to save the visual models on backend.
• Multi-language support (on-demand).

Visit http://valchemist-inn.rhcloud.com to see a live demo of how this app works.

Visual Alchemist is presently a pure html app, so you can simply copy the github repo and host it. However, Flask support is also added as I intend to add more backend-specific features soon.

To run VA in Flask, you'll need to install the minimum requirements via the requirements.txt file. Run the following commands to install requirements in a virtual environment from within the application root directory (assuming you have pip and virtualenv installed):

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r
deactivate

To run the app, go to the application root directory and type:

venv/bin/python valchemist.py

I need contributions in the following areas:

• Front-end Testing: To test the app across various Browser/OS environments to make sure it runs all-right.
• Design: My CSS/JavaScript skills aren't that great. So, if you can suggest any improvisation to the front-end workflow, it would be great!
• Need more suggestions from Python Experts regarding how can I improvise this app, so its useful somewhere.