Tardigrade is a tiny content-management environment.

We developed it as a project for a course at our university. These are the requirements our product has to fulfill:

• persistent data
• XML or JSON web services for AJAX
• authentication and registration with double opt-in
• no passwords stored as plain text
• user input validation
• i18n (optional)

A demo version is online at cansee.at.

• Flask
• Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Flask-WTF
• Flask-Login
• Flask-Themes2
• Flask-Cache
• Flask-Mail
• Flask-Script
• Pygments

• Create a virtualenv
• Install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
• Configuration (adjust them accordingly to your needs)
  • For development copy tardigrade/development.py.example to tardigrade/development.py
  • For production copy tardigrade/production.py.example to tardigrade/production.py
• Create the database with some example content python manage.py createall
• Run the development server python manage.py runserver
• Visit localhost:8080

• Install virtualenvwrapper with your package manager or via

  • sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

• Add these lines to your .bashrc

    export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs  # Location for your virtualenvs
    source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
  

• Create a new virtualenv

  • mkvirtualenv -a /path/to/your/project -p $(which python2) projectname

• and finally activate it

  • workon projectname

For more options visit the documentation here.

BSD LICENSE