Before you start, it's recommended to create a new virtualenv for the application

mkvirtualenv ecommerce -p /usr/bin/python3

virtualenv -p python3 ecommerce
source ecommerce/bin/activate

Then, install the required modules with the command

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create a .env file with the following environment variables

PYTHONPATH=.
FLASK_APP=app.py
FLASK_DEBUG=1
ENVIRONMENT=dev

Install Heroku toolbelt.

wget -qO- https://cli-assets.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

In order to launch the server:

heroku local -f Procfile.dev

These scripts create fake contents in the database for local testing purpose.

init-db.py initialize the database by deleting existing tables and creating new ones. demo-content.py inserts random contents in database tables created by init-db.py.

You must first run init-db.py before launch demo-content.py. Enter in the virtualenv and run scripts by command line:

PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/init-db.py

After initialization of database, run:

PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/demo-content.py