A website/web app template built on Flask and run on Docker

Design philosophy

Having (finally) delved into the wonderful world of Docker, I wanted to make a template website/web app container to use for future projects. I needed a couple things:

• Python compatibility, allowing complex backend applications (e.g., TensorFlow implementation)
• Standardization of web pages, i.e., site-wide nav-bars, footers, etc.

To accomplish these needs, this template was created using:

• Flask, a Python-based framework for serving web content
• Flask-Bootstrap, allowing HTML templates to be inherited site-wide

Notes on the file/folder structure:

• Page routes are defined in app/app.py, points to HTML file
• HTML files found in app/templates/; pages extend base.html
• Anything else found in a website's codebase, images, favicons, CSS files, etc., should go in app/static/

Docker compose

$ cd flask-docker-base
$ docker compose up -d

Using a web browser, nagivate to docker-host-ip:8080.