A Flask application template with the boilerplate code already done for you.

Documentation available at http://hack4impact.github.io/flask-base.

• Blueprints
• User and permissions management
• Flask-SQLAlchemy for databases
• Flask-WTF for forms
• Flask-Assets for asset management and SCSS compilation
• Flask-Mail for sending emails
• gzip compression
• Redis Queue for handling asynchronous tasks
• ZXCVBN password strength checker
• CKEditor for editing pages

Home Page:

Registering User:

Admin Editing Page:

Admin Editing Users:

Navigate to the main project page and click the big, green "Use this template" button at the top right of the page. Give your new repository a name and save it.

$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/REPO_NAME.git
$ cd REPO_NAME

Windows:

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Unix/MacOS:

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

Learn more in the documentation.

Note: if you are using a python before 3.3, it doesn't come with venv. Install virtualenv with pip instead.

$ xcode-select --install

Create a file called config.env that contains environment variables. Very important: do not include the config.env file in any commits. This should remain private. You will manually maintain this file locally, and keep it in sync on your host.

Variables declared in file have the following format: ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE=value. You may also wrap values in double quotes like ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE="value with spaces".

1. In order for Flask to run, there must be a SECRET_KEY variable declared. Generating one is simple with Python 3:

   $ python3 -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(16))"
   

   This will give you a 32-character string. Copy this string and add it to your config.env:

   SECRET_KEY=Generated_Random_String
   

2. The mailing environment variables can be set as the following. We recommend using Sendgrid for a mailing SMTP server, but anything else will work as well.

   MAIL_USERNAME=SendgridUsername
   MAIL_PASSWORD=SendgridPassword
   

Other useful variables include:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

You need Redis, and Sass. Chances are, these commands will work:

Sass:

$ gem install sass

Redis:

Mac (using homebrew):

$ brew install redis

Linux:

$ sudo apt-get install redis-server

You will also need to install PostgresQL

Mac (using homebrew):

brew install postgresql

Linux (based on this issue):

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

$ python manage.py recreate_db

$ python manage.py setup_dev

Note that this will create an admin user with email and password specified by the ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD config variables. If not specified, they are both [email protected] and password respectively.

$ python manage.py add_fake_data

$ source env/bin/activate
$ honcho start -e config.env -f Local

For Windows users having issues with binding to a redis port locally, refer to this issue.

Before you submit changes to flask-base, you may want to autoformat your code with python manage.py format.

Contributions are welcome! Please refer to our Code of Conduct for more information.

To make changes to the documentation refer to the Mkdocs documentation for setup.

To create a new documentation page, add a file to the docs/ directory and edit mkdocs.yml to reference the file.

When the new files are merged into master and pushed to github. Run mkdocs gh-deploy to update the online documentation.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-we-got-a-2-year-old-repo-trending-on-github-in-just-48-hours-12151039d78b#.se9jwnfk5

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