Author: Bahram Aghaei

Python Versions: 3.6+ only

Extensions that has been used:

• Flask-Restful
• Flask-JWT
• Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Flask-Bcrypt
• Flask's Blueprint to make the project modular

Navigate to a directory that you want to work in and clone down this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/GreatBahram/flask.git

Move into the cloned directory and start a new Python 3 virtual environment. You should be using Python 3.6 or later.

$ cd flask
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 run.py

In your virtual environment, set as environment variables the URL to the Postgres database that you intend to use for development, as well as the FLASK_APP environment variable with the path to the repository's run.py file. For something closer to bulletproof, use the absolute path to the file. Note that on my machine I don't need a username or password to access my postgres databases, but your own results may vary.

export DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///database.db
export FLASK_APP=app.py

Initialize your database using the provided initializedb.py file. If you want to be able to drop tables before you create them, set an environment variable of DEVELOPMENT to 'True'.

$ python initializedb.py

In order to run the application, type flask run. If all your stuff is configured properly, your development server should be running on port 5000.