ICT2103-Project

Database Management Project

Setting Up

Pre-requisite:

1. Python v3.6 and above (Make sure it’s in your system PATH environment variable)
2. PIP3 (Make sure it’s in your system PATH environment variable)
3. Visual Studio Code or any IDE
4. Any web browser, preferably Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox

Set up

1. git clone the repository
2. Set up virtual env with python -m venv venv on the terminal. IMPT MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE CORRECT REPO DIRECTORY WHEN CREATING
3. To activate the virtual environment type venv\Scripts\activate.bat in your terminal
4. Install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Copy these 2 commands and execute it in your terminal

set FLASK_APP=unify

and

set FLASK_ENV=development

6. Once all these are set up, you just run the and debug the program but typing flask run in the terminal
7. If you're using VSCode, you could press F5 to instantly debug the web application, you just have to set the debug environment as Flask (second last option) and change app.py to unify.py

Reference

1. Web Application with Flask+PostgreSQL and deploy to heroku
2. Flask Documentation

This user manual is written and moderated by Project UNIFY