User:Jskladan/Sandbox:Flask FI

Setup

Create directory to hold virtualenv

mkdir python_web
cd python_web

Create virtualenv & install flask

wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
python virtualenv.py flask
source flask/bin/activate
pip install flask flask-sqlalchemy flask-wtf

Create directory/file structure

mkdir hello_world
cd hello_world
mkdir static templates
touch config.py

config.py

HOST = '0.0.0.0'
DEBUG = True

Hello World

Create new file (app_01.py), and copy/paste the code below. To start the app, just run it as a regular python script.

app_01.py

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)                                                                       
app.config.from_object('config')                                                            
                                                                                            
@app.route('/')                                                                             
@app.route('/index')                                                                        
def index():                                                                                
    return "Hello, World!"                                                                  
                                                                                            
                                                                                            
if __name__ == '__main__':                                                                  
    app.run(host = app.config['HOST'], debug = app.config['DEBUG'])