Boilerplate for Flask using postgres database

Originally forked from this repo. Reworked, improved and added my preferences to it.

Installation

Run the following commands to set up the project:

cp .env.example .env

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install the dev dependencies:

pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Or just install all the dependencies:

pip install -r all-requirements.txt

If you are not using a .env file

If you are not using a .env file, you need to set up the environment variables below. The example below is the defaults (no need to set them if you are using the default values):

export ENV=dev
export FLASK_APP=main

And if you are using a postgres database, you need to set up the environment variables below. The example below is the defaults (no need to set them if you are using the default values):

export DB_DIALECT=postgresql
export DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
export DB_PORT=5432
export DB_NAME=blank
export DB_USERNAME=postgres
export DB_PASSWORD=