binste / flask_boilerplate

Lightweight Flask boilerplate

flask_boilerplate

Lightweight Flask boilerplate. Contains no user authentication, but this could easily be added using flask-login or similar. Furthermore, sqlalchemy models inherit from normal declarative base to make them usable outside of the flask application. You can still use the advantages of flask-sqlalchemy such as the session or the pagination support.

Inspired by

• Flask Mega Tutorial by Miguel Grinberg
• YouTube - Armin Ronacher, "Flask for Fun and Profit", PyBay2016
• Official flask documentation
• Flask GitHub issue #620 - Add docs about integrating pure SQLAlchemy
• Flask + Plotly Dashboard - Hepta Analytics Blog
• ...

Usage

1. Install requirements from environment.yml and activate respective environment
2. export FLASK_APP="application:create_app"
3. Set up database:
   1. flask db init
   2. flask db migrate -m "Create db"
   3. flask db upgrade
4. Fill database with some fake data python create_fake_data.py
5. flask run