This is an UrlShortener built with Flask and Postgresql.

• Python Installed (Recommended version 3.8 or above)
• Pip Package Manager (pip)

1. Download this repository with git clone or by clicking the download as archive on this page

   git clone https://github.com/Fer-Bar/UrlShortener.git
   

   Go to the project directory.

   cd url_shortener
   

2. Create a virtual environment:

   🪟Windows:

   py -m venv venv
   

   Once created you can activate it.

   venv\Scripts\activate.bat
   

   🐧Unix or MacOS:

   pip install virtualenv
   virtualenv venv
   

   Once created you can activate it.

   source venv/bin/activate
   

3. Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt. Make sure everything is installed properly with pip freeze.

4. The last step is run the main.py file, if you want you can change the host and the port. For example:

   app.run(host='localhost', port=9000, debug=True)
   

• To run tests, run the following command:

  python -m pytest -v
  

• To run the migrations, just run the following commands:

  This command adds a migrations directory in the root of your project. This is a directory where all the migration scripts are going to be stored.

  flask db init
  

  The next step in the process is to create an initial migration, using the migrate command:

  flask db migrate -m "Initial migration."
  

  Then you can apply the migration to the database:

  flask db migrate -m "Initial migration."
  

👤 Fernando Barrientos

• Website: fer-bar.github.io
• Github: Fer-Bar
• LinkedIn: Fernando Barrientos