To get started you will need to make a free account with giphy in order to get an API key. More on that here.
Add your API key to your shell environment variables or to a .env file:
export GIPHY_API_KEY = your-api-key-from-giphy
Start up a virtual environment and install dependencies:
python3 -m venv ENV
source ENV/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Run the app with the following command:
python3 app.py
Go to localhost:5000 to see the app running in your local browser.
Install Docker.
Create an image from the Dockerfile and run the following commands to build the image:
docker build -t sharks:v1.0 . tag the image at version 1.0
docker images list all your local images
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 sharks:v1.0 <image id> run the app on port 5000
docker ps check container is running app
Go to localhost:5000 to see the app running in your local browser.