stevenjlance / birthstone-lab-python-flask-mvc

Lab to teach MVC principles in Flask

Flask Birthstone Lab

The goal of this lab is to create a web application that takes in a user's birth month, and outputs their birthstone. For example, someone born in December should be told that their birthstone is Turquoise or Topaz (depending on which chart you use).

Some of the styling has been done for you, but the rest of the application needs to be created in model.py, routes.py, index.html, and results.html.

Don't forget to preview and test your application as you work!

Bonus Challenges

1. Style the results page so it matches the index.

2. Make the results page output a picture and a description of the gemstone in addition to the name of the birthstone.

3. Create an "About" page with similar styling and link it to the index.

4. Make your own web application (remember, it must take input and output manipulated data).

Quick Setup:

Code to make sure your application hot-reloads on file saves:

export FLASK_DEBUG=1

If you get character set errors, use these two additional lines:

export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
export LANG=en_US.utf-8

Code to run flask:

flask run