This code base serves as a great starting point to write your next Flask application.

Development Feature set

• Modular and well-document directory structure with _readme.txt files.
• Well-named source code files with lots of helpful comments.
• Separate settings.py for general settings and local_settings.py for environment-specific settings.
• Bootstrap3 base template that can easily be changed.
• Complete with a skeleton for an automated test suite.

It's a great starting point for new Flask applications -- whether you plan to use Flask-User or not.

Application Feature set

• Home page
• User Profile page
• User account management (Register, Confirm, Forgot password, Login, Change username, Change password, Logout) using Flask-User
• SMTPHandler for error-level log messages -- sends emails on unhandled exceptions

Dependencies

• Flask
• Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Flask-User v0.6 and up (v0.5 does not support UserAuthClass)

Install git

See http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

Clone this github repository

Open a command line shell and type:

mkdir -p ~/dev
cd ~/dev
git clone https://github.com/lingthio/Flask-User-starter-app.git my_app
cd ~/dev/my_app

Install virtualenvwrapper

Install it with:

sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

Configure it with:

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/dev
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

You may want to place the above in your .bashrc or .profile or .bash_profile file

See http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html

Create a new virtualenv

Find a Python 2.7 executable using python --version and which python.

Run this command once:

mkvirtualenv -p /full/path/to/python2.7 my_app
workon my_app

where the result of which python can be used instead of /full/path/to/python2.7, and where my_app is the name of the new virtualenv.

Install Fabric

Fabric is a build and deployment tool that uses the Python language for its scripts. Though the product name is 'Fabric', the command line tool is 'fab'.

workon my_app
pip install python-dev
pip install python-setuptools
pip install fabric

See also: http://www.fabfile.org/installing.html

Install required Python packages

workon my_app
cd ~/dev/my_app
fab update_env

Initialize the Database

workon my_app
cd ~/dev/my_app
fab reset_db         # Warning: This will delete all data in the database!

Update configuration settings

Before we can use this application, we will have to configure the database URL and SMTP account that will be used to access the database and to send emails.

Instead of editing app/config/settings.py and checking in sensitive information into the code repository, these settings can be set using OS environment variables in your .bashrc or .bash_profile shell configuration file.

export DATABASE_URL='sqlite:///app.sqlite'

export MAIL_USERNAME='[email protected]'
export MAIL_PASSWORD='password'
export MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER='MyApp" <[email protected]>'
export MAIL_SERVER='smtp.gmail.com'
export MAIL_PORT='465'
export MAIL_USE_SSL='1'

export ADMIN1='"Admin One" <[email protected]>'

Start the development webserver

Flask comes with a convenient WSGI web application server for development environments.

workon my_app
cd ~/dev/my_app
fab runserver

Point your web browser to http://localhost:5000/

fab reset_db will create one user with username 'admin' and password 'Password1'.

The tests are in the tests/ directory.

pytest is used to run the automated tests.

pytest is also used to run the code coverage assessment.

workon my_app
cd ~/dev/my_app
fab test
fab test_cov

This project used Flask-User-starter-app as a starting point.