gae-init-babel is the easiest way to kick start new applications on Google App Engine using Flask, Bootstrap, Babel and tons of other cool features.

Read more in the docs, where you can find a complete feature list, a detailed tutorial on how to build a phonebook application and more..

The latest version is always accessible from http://babel.gae-init.appspot.com

$ cd /path/to/project-name
$ ./run.py -s

To test it visit http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.

To watch for changes of your *.less & *.coffee files and compile them automatically to *.css & *.js execute in another bash:

$ ./run.py -w

For a complete list of commands:

$ ./run -h

Grunt is used only for watching for changes and live reloading the page. Install grunt command line interface as a global package:

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

and then from the root execute with no arguments:

$ grunt

Before deploying make sure that the app.yaml and config.py are up to date and you ran the run.py script to minify all the static files:

$ ./run.py -m
$ appcfg.py update main

• Google App Engine, NDB
• Jinja2, Flask, Flask-WTF
• CoffeeScript, Less
• Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Social Buttons
• jQuery, NProgress, Moment.js
• OpenID sign in (Google, Facebook, Twitter)
• Python 2.7, pip, virtualenv
• Grunt, Bower
• Babel

• Being familiar with gae-init
• Babel - easy_install Babel
• Jinja2 - easy_install Jinja2

Due to lack of documentation if you run into any troubles, feel free to add an issue and I'll be happy to improve or provide more info.