Flask-Boilerplate

A skeleton repository for developing web applications with Flask.

Contents

• Features
• Get Started
• Tests
• License
• Questions and comments

Features

This repository includes:

• SQLAlchemy Backend Support
• Migrations
• User Authentication
• Password Encryption
• WTForms
• REST API

Get Started

Using a virtual environment

You'll need the following installed:

• python3
• pip3
• virtualenv

To start the virtual environment:

python3 -m virtualenv .venv 
source .venv/bin/activate

Install the required dependencies:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create the database and establish and administrator:

python3 manage.py create_db
python3 manage.py create_admin

Run the application on a local server:

python3 manage.py runserver

Go to the application

Tests

We recommend using pytest to run these tests as follows:

python3 -m pytest tests

License

This software is released open-source under the MIT license.

Questions and comments

Please contact Saahith Pochiraju with any questions or comments.