Flask Chat
- A Social Blogging Application
Flask Chat is a demonstration of Flask functionality taken directly from the exercises in Miguel Grinberg's excellent book Flask Web Development and his Flasky repository.
Features
- email verification for account registration & password/email change
- MarkDown support and preview for comments & posts
- ability to follow specific users
- filter posts by followed users
- gravatar support for user icons
- application performance profiling support
- basic API support for viewing/creating posts or comments
Installation
git clone https://github.com/kevinbowen777/flask-chat.gitcd flask-chat
Local dev environment installation:
mkvirtualenv flask-chatorworkon flask-chat(using virtualenv-wrapper)cp flaskenv .flaskenvFill out & uncomment environmental variables as appropriateflask deployflask runOptionally, runflask profileto enable performance profiling- Open browser to http://127.0.0.1:5000
Adding fake users for testing:
flask shell@>>> from app import fake@>>> fake.users(100)@>>> fake.posts(500)
Local Docker installation:
cp env .envFill out & uncomment environmental variables as appropriate- Run db server:
docker run --name mysql -d -e MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=yes \ -e MYSQL_DATABASE=flask-chat -e MYSQL_USER=flask-chat \ -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=<database-password> \ mysql/mysql-server:5.7
- Run Flask container:
docker run -d -p 8000:5000 --link mysql:dbserver \ -e DATABASE_URL=mysql+pymysql://flask-chat:<database-password>@dbserver/flask-chat \ -e MAIL_USERNAME=<your-email-username> -e MAIL_PASSWORD=<your-email-password> \ kevinbowen777/flask-chat:latest
- Open browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000
Live Application Demo:
TBD
Docker Container Image:
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