ivnvxd / flask-blog

A lightweight multi-user web blog using Python and Flask

FlaskBlog

FlaskBlog is a simple web app made with Flask on top of Clean Blog theme by Start Bootstrap.

Info

It is a lightweight multi-user web blog using Python and Flask

Application users if they are not logged in can view all the posts in database and view the full content of the posts. They also have the option to register using their username and password.
Registered and authorized users can add new blog posts, edit or delete existing ones (only authored by them), log out or change their password.

Database is built on SQLite. All DB Management is done with SQLAlchemy. Jinja template engine is used to dynamically build HTML pages.

Usage

1. Clone this repository using: git clone https://github.com/venyxD/flask-blog.git
   
2. Optional: Go to the project root directory and install the virtualenv library using pip and create a virtual environment. Run the following commands respectively:
   • pip install virtualenv
   • virtualenv venv
   • source venv/bin/activate
3. Download and install all dependencies in the requirements.txt using pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Start Flask’s built-in web server: $ flask run
5. Open your browser and view the app by opening the link http://127.0.0.1:5000/

• You are free to view recent posts, register, login add new posts etc.

6. To reinitialize sample database run $ python init_db.py from tmp folder.

Tools used

• Python 3
• Flask 2.2.2
• SQLite 3
• SQLAlchemy
• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap 5.1.3
• Clean Blog 6.0.8
• Font Awesome 6.1.3
• Google Fonts API