Shotglass2 is my second attempt at creating a simple web site starter kit using Python and the Flask "Micro Framework".

Out of the box it provides most of the basics for a web site including:

• A basic mobile responsive layout using the w3.css style sheet (w3schools.com).
• An Sqlite3 database with Users, Roles, and Prefs tables with access control.
• Optional user account signup with administrator confirmation.
• Basic Email functions for visitor contact etc.
• Documentation viewing system
• Markdown rendering of page content available.
• The option to host multiple sites from one installation.

A typical approach to setting up a new development project would be to:

• Create a new empty github repo for your new project
• Clone it into your development machine
• cd into the new directory and clone shotglass2 into it with:

  git clone https://github.com/wleddy/shotglass2.git
  

• From the terminal run:

  cp -r shotglass2/a_starter_app/. .
  

• Next run . setup_env
  This will create the instance, resource and templates directories:

  • The 'instance' directory is where you'll keep your private info such as the encryption key and email account info. The database files are usually stored here too.

  • The 'resource' directory is a good place to put static content and/or templates unique to a particular host. More info here.

  • The 'template' directory is where your primary site design file go. You can copy templates from shotglass2/templates and edit them to suit your needs or add new ones.

  • setup_env will also try to create virtualenv directory 'env' and pip the requirements into it.

    • See the note below about virtualenv and requirements.txt with A2 Hosting.
• You should now be in the virtual environment. If not, type . activate_env to activate it.
• Next, edit the file at instance/site_settings.py with all your secrets.
• Enter python app.py to start the dev server and create the initial database. (unless your on A2, see below)

A2 Hosting uses this passenger system to run python apps on their system. Read more here.

shotglass.py handles a number of tasks that used to be part of app in the old shotglass setup. Read more here.

Shotglass2 uses a customizable template loading order. Two setting values control this:

1. HOST_TEMPLATE_DIRS
2. TEMPLATE_DIRS

Read more here.

Shotglass has the ability to host multiple domains from the same server installation. Each site may have it's own database, style sheet and other content. The sites are configured in the application settings file.

Get the details here.

It's possible to override the files in the default 'static' folder by creating your own versions in a folder outside of the shotglass repo. Read more here.

Database access and some utility functions are grouped in the 'takeabeltof' package. Read more here.

A basic users and roles functionality is provided in the 'users' package. Read More Here.

• python >= 3.11
• Flask >= 3
• google-api-python-client
• google-auth-httplib2
• google-auth-oauthlib
• icalendar
• mistune (for Markdown support)
• Pillow
• pytest
• pytz
• Werkzeug