Flaskr—Exercises

Solved exercises for the basic blog app built in the Flask tutorial.

• A detail view to show a single post. Click a post’s title to go to its page.
• Like / unlike a post.
• Comments.
• Tags. Clicking a tag shows all the posts with that tag.
• A search box that filters the index page by name.
• Paged display. Only show 5 posts per page.
• Upload an image to go along with a post.
• Format posts using Markdown.
• An RSS feed of new posts.

Install

# clone the repository
$ git clone https://github.com/NSUSpray/flaskr
$ cd flaskr

Create a virtualenv and activate it

$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ . .venv/bin/activate

Or on Windows cmd

$ py -3 -m venv .venv
$ .venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Install Flaskr

$ pip install -e .

Run

$ flask --app flaskr init-db
$ flask --app flaskr run --debug

Open http://127.0.0.1:5000 in a browser.

Test

$ pip install pytest
$ pytest

Run with coverage report

$ coverage run -m pytest
$ coverage report
$ coverage html  # open htmlcov/index.html in a browser