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1. Created our flask file structure;
    app - templates 
         static
         __init__.py 
         config.py 
         error.py
         views.py
    license
    readme.md 
    run.py
    gitignore - virtual/ 

2. Created our virtual environment and added it in the gitignore file.

3. All flask applications must create an application instance.
    from flask import Flask 
    app = Flask (__name__) - we create an instance of the class called app by passing in the __name__ variable.

4. Create our index page view functions
    from flask import render_template - function that automatically searches for the template file in our app/templates/ 
                                        sub directory and loads it.
    from app import app

    @app.route('/') - route decorator
    def index():    - view function

    '''
    View root page function that returns the index page and its data
    '''

5. Created an index.html file in app/templates/
   used b4-$ shortcut for our html structure with bootstrap cdn links.(might delete later on when importing macros and download 
                                                                         bootstrap manually)

6. Run the application - imported app from app and called the main function.