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To make sure your Python installation is functional, you can open a terminal window and type python3, or if that does not work, just python. Here is what you should expect to see:

$ python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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Creating virtual environment, where you download all Flask related packages python3 -m venv venv

Activating virtual environment conda activate venv

Installing Flask pip install flask pip install flask-wtf -->for forms pip install flask-sqlalchemy -->for databases, wrapper arounf SQLAlchemy pip install flask-migrate --> for handling database changes, almost like git pip install flask-login --> for handling login related

mkdir app

add init.py to app directory where initialisations of all the instances are made add routes.py to app direcctory where all the URL requests to app are routed to corresponding view

Flask needs to be told how to import it, by setting the FLASK_APP environment variable: export FLASK_APP=hello.py

Run the application using flask run

templates folder has all the views