Personal Blog

By Reuben Kipkemboi

Table of Content

• Description
• Installation Requirement
• Technology Used
• License
• Authors Info

Description

A personal blogging website where you can create and share your opinions and other users can read and comment on them. Additionally, there is a feature that displays random quotes to inspire other users. It therefore basically creates blogs and allows users to comment pn these posts , while writers can delete blogs and also comments.

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User Stories

• As a user, I would like to view the blog posts on the site
• As a user, I would like to comment on blog posts
• As a user, I would like to view the most recent posts
• As a user, I would like to an email alert when a new post is made by joining a subscription.
• As a user, I would like to see random quotes on the site
• As a writer, I would like to sign in to the blog.
• As a writer, I would also like to create a blog from the application.
• As a writer, I would like to delete comments that I find insulting or degrading.
• As a writer, I would like to update or delete blogs I have created.

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Writers view

Users View

Behaviour Driven Development

Behaviour	Input	Output
Application starts	On page load	see all available blogs and some inspiring quotes
Login	user email and user Password/passcode	If account already exists redirect to home page and user can see the blogs and subscribe to get updates
Sign up/ Register	Username, user email password	Redirects to login page for user to login into the application
click on comment button	Comment	user submits comments via a form about a certain blog
Comment button	button click	message flash of commenting successfully
Subscription to BlogSpot	User email Address	Flash message "Successfully subscribed to BlogSpot for updates on new blogs"

Installation Requirements

Prerequisites

• pip
• gunicorn
• flask
• wtf-forms

Instructions

1. Git clone the repository to your local computer

https://github.com/Reuben-Kipkemboi/personal-blog.git

2. change Directory cd into blog

cd blog

3. create a virtual environment

python3.8 -m venv virtual

4. activate the virtual environment

source virtual/bin/activate

5. To deactivate the environment

deactivate

6. Install Flask

pip install flask || pip3 install flask

7. Execute start.sh

chmod a+x start.sh

./start.sh

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Technologies Used

License

MIT License

Design

• Design

Live Site

• https://techy-blog22.herokuapp.com

Authors Info

• Slack - Reuben Kipkemboi

• Email - Reuben Kipkemboi 📧

© 2022 @ Reuben Kipkemboi.