MemCachier and Flask on Heroku tutorial

This is an example Flask task list app that uses the MemCachier add-on on Heroku. A running version of this app can be found here.

Detailed instructions for developing this app are available here.

Deploy to Heroku

You can deploy this app yourself to Heroku to play with.

Running Locally

Run the following commands to get started running this app locally:

$ git clone https://github.com/memcachier/examples-flask.git
$ cd examples-flask
$ mkdir instance
$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
(venv) $ FLASK_APP=task_list flask db upgrade
(venv) $ FLASK_APP=task_list FLASK_ENV=development flask run

Then visit http://localhost:5000 to play with the app.

Deploying to Heroku

Run the following commands to deploy the app to Heroku:

$ git clone https://github.com/memcachier/examples-flask.git
$ cd examples-flask
$ heroku create
Creating app... done, ⬢ rocky-chamber-17110
https://rocky-chamber-17110.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/rocky-chamber-17110.git
$ heroku addons:create memcachier:dev
$ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
$ heroku config:set FLASK_APP=task_list
$ heroku config:set SECRET_KEY="`< /dev/urandom tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c16`"
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open

Get involved!

We are happy to receive bug reports, fixes, documentation enhancements, and other improvements.

Please report bugs via the github issue tracker.

Master git repository:

• git clone git://github.com/memcachier/examples-flask.git

Licensing

This example is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.