Fullstack Blog Website

A simple, responsive blog platform built with Flask backend and a frontend using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and JavaScript.

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🚀 Features

• User registration and authentication
• Create, edit, and delete blog posts
• View all blog posts with pagination
• Responsive design with Bootstrap
• Secure password hashing and session management
• Commenting system (optional)
• Clean and easy-to-navigate UI

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Python, Flask, Flask-Login, Flask-WTF, Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 5, Vanilla JavaScript
• Database: SQLite (default), easily switchable to PostgreSQL/MySQL
• Templating: Jinja2 (Flask’s default)

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💻 Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/zealizu/blog.git
cd blog

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv

# Activate virtual environment
# macOS/Linux
source venv/bin/activate

# Windows (PowerShell)
venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

# Windows (CMD)
venv\Scripts\activate.bat

#install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create a .env file in the project root with: SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key_here DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///site.db
3. Run the development server Flask run