An advanced scalable social media app using Python-Flask with Templating and MongoDB

The FlaskBook App - The Approved Study Book Club - is the new social application to meet share and make solo reading a thing of the past.

1. Users can create an account and log in.
2. Users can create profile page.
3. Users can add, edit, remove or block friends/leaders
4. Users can create or upload posts/conversations in different formats.
5. Users can see the friends posts/conversations.
6. Admin can add comment on posts/conversations by friends

To set up The FlaskBook App , make sure that you have python3, postman and pip installed.

Use virtualenv for an isolated working environment.

Clone the Repo into a folder of your choice

git clone  https://github.com/koitoror/flaskbook.git

Create a virtual enviroment.

virtualenv venv --python=python3

Navigate to api folder.

cd flaskbook

Install the packages.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

In order to use mongo+srv protocol, you need to install pymongo-srv

pip3 install pymongo[srv]

To get the app running...

$ mongo --shell
'use <database-name>;'

$ mongo
'show dbs'
"
db.createUser(
  {
    user: "<new_user>",
    pwd: "<some_password>",
    roles: [ { role: "<readWrite>", db: "<database-name>" } ]
  }
)
create user <your-user-name> with password <your-password> createdb"

$ MONGODB_SETTINGS = {
    # 'db': 'flaskbook',
    'host': 'mongodb+srv://<new-user>:<some-password>@cluster0-hcxxx.mongodb.net/<db-name>?authSource=admin&replicaSet=Cluster0-shard-0&w=majority&readPreference=primary&appname=MongoDB%20Compass%20Community&retryWrites=true&ssl=true'
}
$ HOSTNAME = 'HOSTNAME = 'https://yourapp-youruser.pythonanywhere.com'

Set environment variables for ON THE 'SETTINGS.PY' file

SECRET_KEY is your secret key

FLASK_CONFIG is the enviroment you are running on. Should be either Production, Development or Testing. NOTE: its case sensitive

ROLE is the mongo_db user

PASSWORD is the mongo_db password for the user created

DEBUG the default for development configuration is True

PORT the default port for mongo_db service which 5432

HOSTNAME which is the full connection string

HOST which is localhost

MONGODB_DB the name of the app database (NOSQL)

$ python manage.py runserver

Open root path in your browser to test the endpoints. You can also use Postman or any other agent to test the endpoints

To run your tests use

$ python tests.py or
$ pytest --cov

To test endpoints manually fire up postman and run the endpoints

Once app server is running you can view locally from

http://localhost:5000/

• Access the hosted app here here =======

http://thekiplagat.tk/