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MangaMania

A manga site to allow users to post and edit manga titles with their information based on categories.

Getting Started

This project can be forked or cloned to get all required files for local deployment and testing. A seed file is provided to populate the database with initial entries.

Prerequisites

Flask - handles all frontend logic, routing, and rendering of template files. Install via pip

pip install Flask

SQLAlchemy - ORM to support interaction between frontend and database. Install via pip

pip install SQLAlchemy

SQLite - database. Additional information for installation can be found on the SQLite website

virtualenv - optional virtualization for easy workflow during development, allows for multiple installations of python. Install via pip

sudo pip install virtualenv

Installing

  • Creating the database Set up the database by running python database_setup_manga.py

  • Seeding the database A seed file is provide to populate the initial database and get the app up and running. Data can be loaded by running python seed_db_manga.py

  • Start the web server Run python project.py

  • Accessing the web app By default, the app is set to run on port 5000. The app will be able to be accessed by navigating to http://localhost:5000/ in the browser

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Built With

  • Flask - Python web framework
  • SQLAlchemy - Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper
  • SQLite - SQL database engine
  • Virtualenv - Tool for creating isolated Python environments