Flask Seed App

This app is meant to serve as template for new projects. It has the following features:

• User accounts implemented with SQLite, cookies and Flask-Login
• Passwords hashed with bcrypt
• CSRF protection with Flask-CSRF
• Email with Flask-Mail
• Login/logout/forgot password workflow
• Static asset build step with gulp
• Basic HTML Web and Email templates with MUI (https://www.muicss.com)
• Unittests

To create a new app from flaskapp first clone the repository and remove the .git directory:

$ git clone git@github.com:muicss/flaskapp.git
$ rm -rf flaskapp/.git

Then, do a search-replace on the string flaskapp (remember to replace <name> with your app's name):

$ find flaskapp -type f | xargs sed -i'' -e 's/flaskapp/<name>/g'
$ find flaskapp -type f | xargs sed -i'' -e 's/Flaskapp/<Name>/g'
$ mv flaskapp <name>
$ mv <name>/flaskapp <name>/<name>

Now you have your own flask seed project.

Config Variables

flaskapp can be configured using the following environment variables:

Name	Description	Default	Required
DEBUG	Flask debug variable	"False"	no
SECRET_KEY	Flask cookie encryption key	null	yes
MAIL_PORT	SMTP port	null	yes
MAIL_SERVER	SMTP hostname	null	yes
MAIL_USERNAME	SMTP username	null	yes
MAIL_PASSWORD	SMTP password	null	yes

Quickstart

To work in a sandboxed Python environment we recommend installing the app in a Python virtualenv.

1. Install dependencies

   $ cd /path/to/flaskapp
   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Setup a SQLite database for development (app.db)

   $ python scripts/create_db.py

3. Environment variables

   In order to configure flaskapp it is recommended that you create an environment file with the required variables listed above:

   #!/bin/bash
   # Environment variables for Flask seed app
   
   export DEBUG="True"
   export SECRET_KEY="replaceme"
   export MAIL_PORT="587"
   export MAIL_SERVER="mail.google.com"
   export MAIL_USERNAME="user@example.com"
   export MAIL_PASSWORD="replaceme"

   To add the variables to your environment you can source the file as part of your normal workflow:

   $ source /path/to/env-vars.sh

4. Run development server

   $ python wsgi.py

   View at http://127.0.0.1:5000

5. Frontend build scripts

   Install node dependencies:

   $ cd /path/to/flaskapp/static-src
   $ npm install

   Run gulp:

   $ npm run build

Unittests

To run all tests:

$ nosetests

To run an individual test:

$ nosetests tests/views/test_content.py

Contribute

Contributions are welcome! If you'd like to report an issue or submit a pull request please use our github page: https://github.com/muicss/flaskapp.