giftofgrub / warbler

Warbler App

Warbler is a concept app created to showcase similar functionality as Twitter. Users can create accounts to use the features of the app. Once registered, users can create messages, follow/unfollow other user, like/unlike messages

The app is served with a Flask backend, Postgres managed by SQL Alchemy as data storage, and Jinja templates for the frontend.

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Features

• User account creation: required to be able to use the app. User authentication and password hashing is done using bcrypt
• User follows: users can follow other users so that their posts will show up on their feed.
• Message posts: users can post new messages to show up on their feed.
• Message likes: users can like any message to show in their "liked messages"
• User feed: view of own feed can be filtered based on the followed users, liked messages, or own messages.
• User profile: users can edit or delete their profile only by authenticating with their valid password.

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Using the app

Coming from the project folder, create a virtual environment

$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

Or, use your existing virtual environment (yourflaskenv)

$ python -m venv venv
$ source activate (yourflaskenv)

Install the dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Create database and seed with data

$ createdb warbler
$ python seed.py

Start server

$ flask run