SIMPLE BLOG APP

This is a simple blog app where users can:

• Register and login into the app
• See posts
• Create posts
• Update posts
• And delete posts

The user can also logout of the app

Requirements

To be able to run the the program on your local machine you should have the following

note: its been tested on windows 10, python 3.9.6

• install a virtual environment
• install flask
• install wtforms for the login and registration forms
• sqlalchemy for the database
• install bcrypt to hash the passwords

Setting up the environment

install a virtual environment on your windows machine: In your Windows command shell prompt type in:

pip install virtualenv

Once inside the project folder run:

virtualenv <env>

the activate your virtual environment:

.\<env>\Scripts\activate

To Run the code

still in your virtual enviroment:

set FLASK_APP=run.py

then

flask run

you will now be able to explore the app on your local machine

the source code to the app is here

thanks for reading.