Aflutter is a minimalist, Amazon S3 backed file host.
You'll need the following:
- A Heroku account, if you want to deploy to Heroku.
- An Amazon AWS account, including your AWS Access Key and Secret Key
- An Amazon S3 bucket, for storing the images
Amazon S3
- Create a bucket in S3
- Right click on the bucket, and select Properties
- Under Permissions, click Edit CORS Configuration
- Change the domain name(s) below to match your configuration:
<CORSConfiguration>
<CORSRule>
<AllowedOrigin>http://aflutter.example.com</AllowedOrigin>
<AllowedOrigin>https://aflutter.example.com</AllowedOrigin>
<AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod>
<AllowedMethod>POST</AllowedMethod>
<AllowedMethod>PUT</AllowedMethod>
<AllowedMethod>HEAD</AllowedMethod>
<AllowedHeader>*</AllowedHeader>
</CORSRule>
<CORSRule>
<AllowedOrigin>*</AllowedOrigin>
<AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod>
<MaxAgeSeconds>3000</MaxAgeSeconds>
<AllowedHeader>Authorization</AllowedHeader>
</CORSRule>
</CORSConfiguration>Local development setup:
# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/taeram/aflutter.git
cd ./aflutter
# Create the development database (SQLite by default)
python manage.py database migrate upgrade
python manage.py database setup
# Install less.js for on the fly compilation of .less files
npm install -g less
# Export the config variables
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=secret \
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=secret \
AWS_REGION=us-east-1 \
AWS_S3_BUCKET=aflutter-bucket \
MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE=5368709120 \
SECRET_KEY=secret_key
# Note that SECRET_KEY is a hash used by the Flask application to secure cookies, and should be randomized
# Start the application, prefixing with the required environment variables
python server.pyHeroku setup:
# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/taeram/aflutter.git
cd ./aflutter
# Create your Heroku app, and the addons
heroku apps:create
heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql
# Promote your postgres database (your URL name may differ)
heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_RED_URL
# Tell Heroku we need a custom buildpack (for python + nodejs)
heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git
# Set the flask environment
heroku config:set FLASK_ENV=production
# Set the application config
heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=secret \
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=secret \
AWS_REGION=us-east-1 \
AWS_S3_BUCKET=aflutter-bucket \
MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE=5368709120 \
SECRET_KEY=secret_key
# Note that SECRET_KEY is a hash used by the Flask application to secure cookies, and should be randomized
# Add a Google Analytics ID if you want to track visitors
heroku config:set GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID=<your Google Analytics id>
# Push to Heroku
git push heroku master
# Create the production database
heroku run python manage.py database migrate upgrade
heroku run python manage.py database setup
When upgrading to a new release, simply pull down the new copy, and migrate the database:
python manage.py database migrate upgrade
If you're migrating a Heroku app, just prefix the above command with heroku run.