AstraMarket - Find your way to the stars

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AstraMarket is web-application for selling and buying products.

Registering as normal user can be done by clicking 'Sign Up' button. For registering as admin user you have to use flask commandline.
Users can add products, edit products, and comment on them. User can also delete these.
Users can also report unappropriate comments.
Admins can hide these reported comments and also permanently ban users.
Banned users can't log in anymore.
Users can like each others profiles.
In marketplace products can be searched for with search bar. Category, condition and sorting order of the products can also be specified.

Installation instruction

Requirements

Python version 3.8.1 or higher
PostgreSQL database

Configuration:

In the root folder of the application create .env file. In .env file set variable SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI as path to postgresql database, and secret key to SECRET_KEY variable. Also set variables UPLOAD_FOLDER=src/static and FLASK_APP=src/app.py

Example:

SECRET_KEY=Strong_secret_key
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=postgresql://database_name:password@localhost/database_user
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_NAME=database_name
DB_USER=database_user
DB_PASSWORD=password
UPLOAD_FOLDER=src/static
FLASK_APP=src/app.py

Running the program

Install requirements from requirement.txt file with pip.

pip3 install -r requirement.txt

In root directory of application first activate venv.

Source venv/bin/activate

Now run flask.

flask run

To initiate database just run schema.py file.

Host

This application can be accessed in heroku:

https://marketplacetsoha.herokuapp.com/login

To try admin functionalities use following credentials:
Username=admin
Password=admin

What I learned & What application is lacking?

I learned how to use css, html and bootstrap in depth. I also tried to learn flask methods and extensions as much as possible. I learned to implement flask in my own ways, but at the risk of there being some security issues. I am not sure if post_injection of database methods with context_processor is safe yet, and have to find out more about that. I found post_injection useful in fetching information data to jinga.

I think report functionalities are lacking. In the future I would like to offer users possibility of reporting products and other users. Also I thought that encapsulation of python functions wasn't good enough. I want to put more thought into how to arrange methods into classes, and when its wise to use classes? Is it always needed?

astranero / marketplace_tsoha