Fyyur

Introduction

Fyyur is a musical venue and artist booking site that facilitates the discovery and bookings of shows between local performing artists and venues. This site lets you list new artists and venues, discover them, and list shows with artists as a venue owner. This was my first project on the Udacity Full Stack Web Development nanodegree program.

My task was to build out the data models to power the API endpoints for the Fyyur site by connecting to a PostgreSQL database for storing, querying, and creating information about artists and venues on Fyyur.

You can view this app live at https://fyyur-events.herokuapp.com/

Overview

This app was nearly complete. It was only missing one thing … real data! While the views and controllers were defined in this application, it was missing models and model interactions to be able to store retrieve, and update data from a database. By the end of this project, I had a fully functioning site that was at least capable of doing the following, if not more, using a PostgreSQL database:

• creating new venues, artists, and creating new shows.
• searching for venues and artists.
• learning more about a specific artist or venue.

Tech Stack

The tech stack for this project was:

• SQLAlchemy ORM to be the ORM library of choice
• PostgreSQL as the database of choice
• Python3 and Flask as our server language and server framework
• Flask-Migrate for creating and running schema migrations
• HTML, CSS, and Javascript with Bootstrap 3 for the website's frontend

Main Files: Project Structure

├── README.md
├── app.py *** the main driver of the app. Includes your SQLAlchemy models.
                  "python app.py" to run after installing dependences
├── config.py *** Database URLs, CSRF generation, etc
├── error.log
├── forms.py *** Forms
├── requirements.txt *** The dependencies to be installed with "pip3 install -r requirements.txt"
├── static
│   ├── css
│   ├── font
│   ├── ico
│   ├── img
│   └── js
└── templates
    ├── errors
    ├── forms
    ├── layouts
    └── pages

Overall:

• Models are located in the MODELS section of app.py.
• Controllers are also located in app.py.
• The web frontend is located in templates/, which builds static assets deployed to the web server at static/.
• Web forms for creating data are located in form.py

Development Setup

First, install Flask if you haven't already.

$ cd ~
$ sudo pip3 install Flask

To start and run the local development server,

1. Initialize and activate a virtualenv:

$ cd YOUR_PROJECT_DIRECTORY_PATH/
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate

2. Install the dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the development server:

$ export FLASK_APP=myapp
$ export FLASK_ENV=development # enables debug mode
$ python3 app.py

4. Navigate to Home page http://localhost:5000