Flask is a free and open source micro web framework for Python designed to help developers build secure, scalable and maintainable web applications. Flask is based on Werkzeug and uses Jinja2 as a template engine.

Initially the application will crash because most of the imported application needed for it to run are not installed yet. To rectify this on ubuntu system the following application needs to be installed and the required tables created. Since this is a small application, the use of virtuall environment was not necessary. Below are the list of application that should be installed for the application to work.

• mkdir my_flask_app
• cd my_flask_app
• pip install Flask
• Mysql

For an indepth guy on how to install mysql on ubuntu, follow these staps How To Install MySQL on Ubuntu 18.04.

• Login to mysql with command
  • mysql -u root -p (it will prompt you for a password as given here: ) Enter password:******
• Once logged in, it is adviceable to create your own database with command
  • CREATE DATABASE myflaskapp
• Then use the database just created with the command
  • use myflaskapp
• Then create two tables named users and articles
• create table users(id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, username VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, email VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, register_date default current_timestamp);

and

• create table articles(id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, title VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL, author VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, body VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, date_created default current_timestamp);

In other to get started with this application, you will have to download it using these commands:

• git clone https://github.com/ohayamic/FlaskApp-Mysql.git
• cd FlaskApp-Mysql
• python app.py