Configuring flask application

Start virtual environment

1. Install python in machine.
2. Go to VSCode terminal.
3. Enter command as python -m venv .venv
4. Open setting, navigate to Select interpreter.
5. If it show venv excutable, select that. Ignore step-6 if this is successful.
6. If venv does not exist, go to enter interpreter path. Select "flask_store/.venv/Scripts/python.exe"
7. Bin the current terminal
8. Open a new terminal
9. The project will start with venv. e.g. Path in terminal will have "(.venv)" as start

Run the flask app locally

1. Check if virtual environment is active. If not refer to above steps to start venv
2. Go to flask_store folder.
3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt in terminal.
4. Start flask app with flask run this command.

Docker image build and run

1. Check Dockerfile
2. Run command docker build -t <image_name> .
3. To run image enter docker run -dp 5000:5000 <image_name>

Run flask in docker containers

1. Hot run the docker container.
   • Windows: docker run -dp 5000:5000 -w /app -v "/c/Documents/yourproject:/app" flask-smorest-api
   • Linux, MacOS: docker run -dp 5000:5000 -w /app -v "$(pwd):/app" flask-smorest-api
2. Build a docker image docker build -t flask-smorest-api .
3. Run container docker run -dp 5000:5000 flask-smorest-api

URL Details: Rest url http://127.0.0.1:5000/ Swagger url http://127.0.0.1:5000/swagger-ui