Idea: Social site/discussion forum similar to Hacker News.
- Authentication; user can create an account and log in/out.
- User can read posts on the main feed.
- User can sort main feed posts by votes, number of comments or time.
- User can search for posts with keywords.
- User can create posts for the main feed.
- User can comment on posts.
- User can edit their posts and comments.
- User can upvote or downvote posts.
- User has an user profile page and they can edit their profile.
- Users' posts and comments can be viewed from their profile page.
Deployed site is available at https://nutcracker-news.fly.dev/
Due to fly.io's free tier's limitations, the front page might occasionally display no posts or other strange errors might appear. In case this occurs, please refresh the page. (might take a few attempts...)
After cloning the repository, run the following commands in the root folder to install dependencies and activate the virtual environment:
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Local psql database should also be created and the credentials added to a local .env file in the following format:
DATABASE_URL=[insert url here]
SECRET_KEY=[insert key here]
After completing these steps, start the app with flask run. The app runs the schema.sql file automatically on start.