Flogger: A Simple Flask Blog

Part of the "Professional Web Development Using Python Flask" course.

Requires python 3.6 installed.

Local MySQL server

• Create the application user and password:
  • Logon to MySQL using root user
  • Create the Flogger database CREATE DATABASE flogger;
  • Create the floger user CREATE USER 'flogger_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'flogger_password';
  • Give privileges to flogger user GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON flogger.* TO 'flogger_user'@'%'; and FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
• Create a virtualenv: python3 -m venv venv
• Activate the virtualenv: source venv/bin/activate
• Install the packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run flask db init to initialize migrations
• Run flask db migrate and flask db upgrade to create tables
• Run flask runserver
• Open http://localhost:5000 on your browser
• To open a shell, just do flask shell
• Run tests by doing python tests.py