Intro to Flask

This project practices using Flask framework to create a Web App. The following YouTube video was used as a guide for the beginning of the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45P3xQPaYxc&t=66s

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Overview

Tech Stack:

• Python
• Flask

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Setting Up

Create and Navigate to Virtual Env (in terminal):

• "python -m venv <env_name>"
• ".\<env_name>\scripts\activate"

Install Packages:

• "pip install Flask Flask-Scss Flask-SQLAlchemy"

Create Requirements File:

• "pip freeze > requirements.txt"

Create Working File (outside of terminal):

• app.py
• import packages
• create app homepage
• add final test if name == main

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HTML Templates

This is where the page layout and text is written

Each .html file will correlate to a different page

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CSS styles

This is where the information is styled (colors, fonts, layout, etc.)