Flask Starter Kit

Comes with preconfigured basic Flask app with SQLAlchmemy, LoginForm, Basic User Model, and static assets.

Requirements:

• Python 2.7.x
• node with global installation of gulp and bower. Can be used without that global installations also.

How to use ?

• Clone this repo git clone git@github.com:brijeshb42/flask-web-starter-kit.git.
• Create a new virtual environment mkvirtualenv starter-kit.
• Switch to the new env workon starter-kit.
• Install python modules pip install -r requirements.txt.
• Install node modules to compile assets npm install.
• Install bower packages bower install.
• Copy config.py.default to config.py.
• Make changes to config.py as required.
• Create a symlink to bower_components folder inside frontend : cd frontend && ln -s ../bower_components/ bower_components.
• Migrate DB (uses sqlite by default. Can be configured in config.py)
  • python script.py db init
  • python script.py db migrate
  • python script.py db upgrade
• In separate terminal, cd into the starter-kit directory and run gulp clean && gulp to compile static assets and start a livereload server.
• Then run python script.py runserver
• Open localhost:5000 in browser.
• To add your own routes, open backend/app.py and start adding your own urls and responses. You can spin off your routes in new files. Just don't forget to import your files in app.py.