Fyyur is a musical venue and artist booking site that facilitates the discovery and bookings of shows between local performing artists and venues. This site lets you list new artists and venues, discover them, and list shows with artists as a venue owner.
The web application is implemented using python(flask) and postgresql and offers the following functionalities:
- creating new venues, artists, and creating new shows.
- searching for venues and artists.
- learning more about a specific artist or venue.
Our tech stack will include the following:
- virtualenv as a tool to create isolated Python environments
- SQLAlchemy ORM to be our ORM library of choice
- PostgreSQL as our database of choice
- Python3 and Flask as our server language and server framework
- Flask-Migrate for creating and running schema migrations
You can download and install the dependencies mentioned above using
pip
as:
pip install virtualenv
pip install SQLAlchemy
pip install postgres
pip install Flask
pip install Flask-Migrate
Note - If we do not mention the specific version of a package, then the default latest stable package will be installed.
You must have the HTML, CSS, and Javascript with Bootstrap 3 for our website's frontend. Bootstrap can only be installed by Node Package Manager (NPM). Therefore, if not already, download and install the Node.js. Windows users must run the executable as an Administrator, and restart the computer after installation. After successfully installing the Node, verify the installation as shown below.
node -v
npm -v
Install Bootstrap 3 for the website's frontend:
npm init -y
npm install bootstrap@3
├── README.md
├── app.py *** the main driver of the app. Includes your SQLAlchemy models.
"python app.py" to run after installing dependencies
├── config.py *** Database URLs, CSRF generation, etc
├── error.log
├── forms.py *** Your forms
├── requirements.txt *** The dependencies we need to install with "pip3 install -r requirements.txt"
├── static
│ ├── css
│ ├── font
│ ├── ico
│ ├── img
│ └── js
└── templates
├── errors
├── forms
├── layouts
└── pages
- Install the dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run the development server:
export FLASK_APP=myapp
export FLASK_ENV=development # enables debug mode
python3 app.py
- Verify on the Browser
Navigate to project homepage [http://127.0.0.1:5000/](http://127.0.0.1:5000/) or [http://localhost:5000](http://localhost:5000)