flask_base

A flask app mvp to be forked and developed by ITW Speer interns.

Derived largely from the official tutorial (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/tutorial)

Setup

Install the dependencies from requirements.txt into your environment (remember to activate your environment with source activate once in the project directory, and then use pip install -r requirements.txt to install the required packages).

Requires FLASK_APP and FLASK_ENV environment variables set. For example:

$ export FLASK_APP=contact_tracker

$ export FLASK_ENV=development

Or, set when running commands:

$ FLASK_APP=contact_tracker FLASK_ENV=development flask run

Before running the app the first time, or if making any changes to the database schema, you'll have to run the init-db command:

$ flask init-db

Commands

flask run -- start the server. You'll notice a message saying where the site is running locally, most likely http://127.0.0.1:5000/. Ctrl-c will shut the server down.

flask init-db -- run the database setup command, creating a database from the schema found in <app_name>/schema.sql. This will also delete all current data in the database