imclab / dwd-flask-user-demo

Demo site of Flask User Authentication and Management

ITP DWD Fall 2012

Flask and User Management

Demo site to demonstrate how to

View Demo Site itppy-user-demo.herokuapp.com

• register and login users.
• create database documents associated to a specific user.
• query database for documents by a user.

To get started

• Download code

• Create Git repo

    git init
    git add .
    git commit -am "init commit"
  

• Create a virtual environment

    virtualenv venv
  

• Install all requirements for app

    . runpip
  

  or

    . venv/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create Heroku app

    heroku create
  

• Add MongoLab Starter Addon to your app

• Add MONGOLAB_URI from Heroku config to your .env file

    heroku config --shell | grep MONGOLAB_URI >> .env
  

Create a SECRET_KEY for your .env and Heroku Config

We need a SECRET_KEY for salting the user passwords.

• Open your .env and add a new line

    SECRET_KEY=SOMETHINGSECRETANDRANDOMHERE
  

• We need to add this secret key to Heroku config vars too

    heroku config:add SECRET_KEY=SOMETHINGSECRETANDRANDOMHERE
  

This will add a new key and value to the App on Heroku.

Run it

With your MONGOLAB_URI and SECRET_KEY configured in .env and on Heroku config you should be good to run the code.

Run,

. start

or

. venv/bin/activate
foreman start

The routes

• / - main page - display all content and list of users
• /users/<username>- display all content for a given user
• /admin - must be logged in, create a new piece of content for a user
• /register - create a new user
• /login - login with registered email and password
• /logout - logout user