Jeffmusa / Blog-IP

A personal blog website done using Python and flask framework

Jeffblog

Jeffblog is a web application for adding up blogs and commenting on existing blogs.

Sept,14,2018

By Jeff Musa

Description

Jeffblog is a web application blog meant inspirational blogs and all that comes along with positivity.

The blog supports comments from readers and blog writers to determine whether to delete the comments or not. Users can also delete blog posts.

After the writer has posted a new blog post, subscribers will receive an email notification with a link to the blog post.

Set-up and Installation

Prerequiites

- Python 3.6
- Ubuntu software

Clone the Repo

Run the following command on the terminal: git clone https://github.com/jeffmusa/Blog-IP.git && cd Blog-IP

Install Postgres

Create a Virtual Environment

Run the following commands in the same terminal:

sudo apt-get install python3.6-venv
python3.6 -m venv virtual
source virtual/bin/activate

Install dependancies

Install dependancies that will create an environment for the app to run pip3 install -r requirements

Prepare environment variables

export DATABASE_URL='postgresql+psycopg2://<your-username>:<your-password>@localhost/carblog'
export SECRET_KEY='Your secret key'
export DATABASE_URL_TEST='postgresql+psycopg2://<your-username>:<your-password>@localhost/carblog_test'
export MAIL_SERVER='smtp.googlemail.com'
export MAIL_PORT=587
export MAIL_USE_TLS=1
export MAIL_USERNAME=<your-email>
export MAIL_PASSWORD=<your-password> 

Run Database Migrations

python manage.py db init
python manage.py db migrate -m "initial migration"
python manage.py db upgrade

Running the app in development

In the same terminal type: python3 manage.py server

Open the browser on http://localhost:5000/

Known bugs

Sending batch emails bug

Technologies used

- Python 3.6
- HTML
- Bootstrap 4
- JavaScript
- Heroku
- Postgresql

Support and contact details

Contact me on [e-mail] for advice.

License

Copyright (c) Jeff Musa