gordonfierce / urly-bird

URLy Bird

Description

Create a URL shortener/bookmarking site with Flask.

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should understand:

• How to build simple applications in Flask

Details

Deliverables

• A Git repo called urly-bird containing at least:
  • README.md file explaining how to run your project
  • a requirements.txt file
  • a suite of tests for your project (on day 2)

Requirements

• Passing unit tests
• No PEP8 or Pyflakes warnings or errors

Day 1

Normal Mode

Create a Flask app with the following features:

• User registration
• User login
• User logout

You can have an index page that only shows the current logged in/logged out status and has links to each of these features.

Hard Mode

In addition to the requirements from Normal Mode:

• Display the name of the user on the page
• Add Foundation and style your forms with it
• Start on the Bookmark model

Day 2

Coming soon!

Additional Resources

• Flask Skeleton. Use this at your own risk. It explains how to use it in the README.
• Hashids. These may be useful for creating short URLs.