jruiz98 / search-engine-web-app

IRWA Search Engine

Search Engine with Web Analytics - skeleton project

IRWA Final Project

This projects contains the startup Flask files for developing a web application.

To download this repo locally

Open a terminal console and execute:

cd <your preferred projects root directory>

git clone https://github.com/irwa-labs/search-engine-web-app.git

Starting the Web App

python -V
# Make sure we use Python 3

cd search-engine-web-app
python web_app.py

The above will start a web server with the application:

 * Serving Flask app 'web-app' (lazy loading)
 * Environment: production
   WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
   Use a production WSGI server instead.
 * Debug mode: off
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:8088/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Open Web app in your Browser:
http://127.0.0.1:8088/ or http://localhost:8088/

Virtualenv for the project (first time use)

Install virtualenv

Having different version of libraries for different projects.
Solves the elevated privilege issue as virtualenv allows you to install with user permission.

In the project root directory execute:

pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv --version

virtualenv 20.10.0

Prepare virtualenv for the project

In the root of the project folder run:

virtualenv .

If you list the contents of the project root directory, you will see that it has created several sub-directories, including a bin folder (Scripts on Windows) that contains copies of both Python and pip. Also, a lib folder will be created by this action.

The next step is to activate your new virtualenv for the project:

source bin/activate

or for Windows...

myvenv\Scripts\activate.bat

This will load the python virtualenv for the project.

Installing Flask and other packages in your virtualenv

pip install Flask pandas nltk faker

Enjoy!

Git Help

After creating the project and code in local computer...

1. Login to GitHub and create a new repo.
2. Go to the root page of your new repo and note the url from the browser.
3. Execute the following locally.

cd <project root folder>
git init -b main
git add . && git commit -m "initial commit"
git remote add origin <your GitHub repo URL from the browser>
git push -u origin main