Flask wsgi bootstrap/demo

This demo shows the use of gunicorn with flask. Original credit goes to Max Meinhold. It includes a basic Dockerfile, a linting demonstration using Pylint, and a Travis CI configuration for running linting.

This is not an in depth guide in how these tools work, but a basic starting point and reference.

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Setup

Locally running this application should be pretty simple.

1. (optional) Use a virtualenv
   • Why use a venv? It isolates your dependencies and helps prevent version conflicts with other projects or system dependencies.
   1. python3 -m venv venv will create a venv in a directory named venv
   2. source ./venv/bin/activate will activate the venv
2. Install dependencies

• pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the app

• gunicorn demo:APP --bind=localhost:5000

4. Visit localhost:5000 in your web browser.

Linting

This demo uses pylint. Travis CI will automatically run pylint on commits and PRs, but you can also run pylint manually, using pylint demo. The pylint_quotes plugin is loaded by the pylintrc and will ensure standardised quotation mark formats.