#Intro to Flask

Supporting slides can be found here

Before we get started buildling with flask we need to setup our development environment.

1. Install Python
2. Install virtualenv
3. Install virtualenvwrapper or virtualenvwrapper-win
4. Create a virtual environment
5. Install flask
6. Run our flask project
7. Checkout the next bit of code

1. Install Python

Windows

Mac

2. Install virtualenv

$ pip install virtualenv

3. Install virtualenvwrapper or virtualenvwrapper-win

virtualenv wrappers make it easy to manage multiple environments and can make iterating on project easy.

Windows

C:\ pip install virtualenvwrapper-win  

Mac

$ pip install virtualenvwrapper 
$ export WORKON_HOME=~/Envs 
$ source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh 

4. Create a virtual environment

$ mkvirtualenv venv

deavtivate environment

$ deavtivate 

workon that environment

$workon venv

EXTRA: link directory to virtualenv

$ setprojectdir .

$ deactivate

$ workon helloworld

Before moving forward - Make sure you're virtualenv is activated. Should look like this:

(venv) path\to\something\like\your\project$ 

5. Install flask

Now we need flask for our first website!

$ pip install flask

6. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/timmyreilly/introduction-to-flask.git 

7. Checkout our first section

$ git checkout a 

8. Run our flask project

$ python hello.py
 * Running on http://localhost:5000/