Web App Tutorial


We will be using virtual environments. If you do not have virtualenv installed, please follow these instructions to install it:

To install globally with pip (if you have pip 1.3 or greater installed globally):

$ [sudo] pip install virtualenv

To install version 15.0.1 globally from source:
$ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-15.0.1.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz virtualenv-15.0.1.tar.gz
$ cd virtualenv-15.0.1
$ [sudo] python setup.py install
To use locally from source:

$ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-15.0.1.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz virtualenv-15.0.1.tar.gz
$ cd virtualenv-15.0.1
$ python virtualenv.py myVE


Getting started with Flask:
http://flask.pocoo.org/

Hello World!

$ cd 0-hello-world
$ virtualenv env
$ . env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python hello-world.py