EmmanuelMuchiri / pitch

Perfect Pitch is an application that allows you to Post a pitch based on various categories.You can view other pitches as long as you have an account and can either comment or upvote or downvote

Perferct Pitch

Built By Emmanuel Muchiri

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Description

Perfect Pitch is an application that allows you to Post a pitch based on various categories.You can view other pitches as long as you have an account and can either comment or upvote or downvote

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User Stories

These are the behaviours/features that the application implements for use by a user.

As a user I would like to:

• See various news sources
• Select the ones they prefer
• See the top news articles from that news source
• See the image, description and time the news article was created
• Click on an article and read it fully from the news source

Specifications

Behaviour	Input	Output
Display Welcome Message	On page load	Select between Add a pitch and View Pitch
Display Pitch Form	Click add pitch	Redirected to a page where He types the title and content and then selects the category from the drop-down arrow
Display the Pitch	Click view pitch	Each pitch displays title, description and category

SetUp / Installation Requirements

Prerequisites

• python3.6
• pip
• virtualenv

Cloning

• In your terminal:

    $ git clone https://github.com/EmmanuelMuchiri/pitch.git
    $ cd News-Highlights
  

Running the Application

• Creating the virtual environment

    $ python3.6 -m venv --without-pip virtual
    $ source virtual/bin/env
    $ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python 
  

• Installing Flask and other Modules

    $ python3.6 -m pip install Flask
    $ python3.6 -m pip install Flask-Bootstrap
    $ python3.6 -m pip install Flask-Font-Mail
    $ python3.6 -m pip install Flask-upload
    $ python3.6 -m pip install Flask-login
    $ python3.6 -m pip install Flask-Alchemy
    $ python3.6 -m pip install Flask-Simplemde
  

• To run the application, in your terminal:

    $ chmod +x start.sh
    $ ./start.sh
  

Testing the Application

• To run the tests for the class files:

    $ python3.6 manage.py tests
  

Technologies Used

• Python3.6
• Flask

License

MIT ©2019 Emmanuel Muchiri