Mamba

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Mamba is a simple blogging platform built on the Flask framework.

Known Issues

1. user edit form in admin area does not show a users current roles
2. boolean fields do not properly show checked/unchecked in forms
3. tests need to be rewritten / updated

TODO

1. create an easier way to edit and manage the site menus
2. fix known issues

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

 1. Python 3.9
 2. virtualenv
 3. sqlite3
 4. git 

Installing

git clone <repo>
cd mamba
virtualenv -p '/path/to/python3.9' env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
Edit config.py (replace 'secret')
Edit init_db.py (email / password)
python init_db.py
python wsgi.py
open browser and go to localhost:5000

Running the tests

you can run tests with pytest

Deployment

To deploy code into a live environment, you will want to use gunicorn, nginx and mysql. Googling around will get you information on how to make this happen, a more in depth write up / how to section will replace this one in time.

Built With Flask

Contributing

Please read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for details on our code of conduct, and CONTRIBUTING.md for submitting issues and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Authors

• Dustin Farley - Initial work - nivesnine

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv2 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Inspired by m1yag1 for sharing his single file Flask blog app and convincing me to finally start this project