MarkTLite / flask-blog

A blog application done to apply core concepts as learned from the official flask documentation.

Flaskr Blog

A blog application done to apply core concepts as learned from the official flask documentation. It involved:

• REST API (Users are able to register, log in, create posts, and edit or delete their own posts.)
• Authentication, registering blueprints, sessions and cookies, protected routes.
• SQLite database for users and posts
• Template views
• Tests
• Deployment or packaging and installing the application on other computers.
  

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Link:

You can register and checkout the blog -> here

Installing the Project locally

Use pip to install the project in the virtual environment.

pip install -e .

Running the app locally

Initialise the db

flask --app flaskr init-db

then run

flask --app flaskr run

Deployment

The blog is deployed using heroku pipelines.

First deploy to staging for testing

heroku push staging main

then when its approved, promote to production.

heroku pipelines:promote --remote prod

Tests

Install pytest and coverage then:

coverage run -m pytest && coverage report