Flask React Project

Getting started

1. Clone this repository
2. Create a .env file based on the example with proper settings for your development environment
3. Follow instructions in the starter_app/README.md to setup your development Back-End.
4. Follow instructions in the client/README.md to set up your development Front-End.

Deploying to Heroku

Prepping Your Heroku Project

1. Create a new project on your Heroku Dashboard.
2. Under Resources click "Find more add-ons" and add the add on called "Heroku Postgres".
3. Install the Heroku CLI if you haven't already.
4. Add any Config Vars to your heroku app, either on the Heroku CLI, or on the heroku-app dashboard's Settings tab.

Prepping Your React App:

1. Run npm run build in your React app root folder.
   • This will build the static files for your React app.
   • The postbuild script from your package.json will automatically move them into the /static directory in your flask files.

Prepping your Flask App:

1. Enter your pipenv: pipenv shell
2. Update your requirements.txt with all of the packages installed in the environemt: pip freeze > requirements.txt

Pushing your container

1. Login to heroku: $ heroku login
2. Login to the heroku container registry: $ heroku container:login
3. CD into starter_app and push your Dockerfile to heroku (this will build the Flask Dockerfile, and push): $ heroku container:push web -a {NAME_OF_HEROKU_APP}
4. Release your docker container to heroku: $ heroku container:release web -a {NAME_OF_HEROKU_APP}
5. Set up your database: heroku run -a {NAME_OF_HEROKU_APP} {your_migration_script_here}
6. Profit.