danidee10 / Votr

:star2: A polling application built with Flask and React

Votr

Repository for my tutorial on How to build an online voting application with Flask and React

The Live Demo is available on heroku

NOTE: This branch contains code for the tutorial on my blog, For the latest state of this project, checkout the master branch

Table of content

• Part 1 - Introduction and installation
• Part 2 - Design and manipulate the database with SQLAlchemy
• Part 3 - Templating, authentication and static assets
• Part 4 - Building an interactive UI with ReactJS
• Part 5 - How to build a simple REST API with Flask
• Part 6 - Connecting React to a REST API
• Part 7 - Spin up an Admin dashboard quickly and easily with Flask-Admin
• Part 8 - Understanding Flask blueprints
• Part 9 - Running background tasks with celery
• Part 10 - Testing the application

The table of contents lists the main topic of focus in each part, but each article also covers other topics

Votr in action

Installation

https://github.com/danidee10/Votr.git

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

set the FLASK_APP and FLASK_DEBUG variables

export FLASK_APP=votr.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1

Finally run it with:

flask run