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
$ 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
$ python3 manage.py recreate_db
$ python3 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.
$ python3 manage.py add_fake_data
$ source env/bin/activate
$ python3 manage.py runserver
Use the command below instead of $ python3 manage.py runserver if your code utilizes variables within the config.env file.
$ 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.