A portfolio website hosted with Heroku

• First you have to get Python installed on your computer.

• Create a new directory

• Open the directory in a terminal, then enter the command git init .

• Enter the command git clone https://github.com/iSOLveIT/Personal-Site.git

• Install all dependencies in the requirements.txt file by using command pip install -r requirements.txt

• In order to run the app, open the directory in a terminal, then enter the command python3 run.py

• To run the app, open the directory in a terminal, then enter the command gunicorn -w 3 -b "127.0.0.1:4000" run:app

• NOTE:

  • If you intend using this project in the productive environment do not use the development server.
  • Make sure debug=True is cleared in a productive environment
  • In a productive environment make sure threaded=True is used only if your server can handle threading. Else it is better to clear it

• The app is a single page app that gives information about a developer's coding skills, personality, achievements and contact details

• The app was designed with the Python web framework called Flask.
• The app was designed as a package to make the code maintainable.
• The app used the Django MVC architecture by having a different files for holding both the views (views.py) and routes (routes.py in Django known as url.py)
• The app uses an email verification API to verify the emails sent through the contact form
• The app uses Flask-Compress to compress static files

iSOLveIT

• Duodu Randy

• Thursday, 5th September, 2019