Flask APP project template

by Charlie Jouanne

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Prerequisites 🐳

• Docker
• docker-compose

Config app variables

First, run this command on the terminal inside the project directory to create a .env file.

touch .env

Then add this inside the .env file

SECRET_KEY="a12b9af2eb5a96ch8rl1e1c6771e525b30fa2c8"
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI="postgresql://myuser:mypassword@postgres:5432/my_app"

MAIL_SERVER="smtp.gmail.com"
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_USERNAME="example@gmail.com"
MAIL_PASSWORD="********"
MAIL_USE_TLS=False
MAIL_USE_SSL=True

Config Database variables

Run this command on terminal to create .env_db file.

touch .env_db

Then add this inside the .env_db file

POSTGRES_USER="myuser"
POSTGRES_PASSWORD="mypassword"
POSTGRES_DB="my_app"

Settig up Nginx

First, launch the app with this command

docker-compose -f local-docker-compose.yml up -d

and then run

docker-compose -f local-docker-compose.yml stop
docker-compose -f local-docker-compose.yml down

This will stop the app and create a new folder named ./nginx-conf/local. Then add anginx.conf file inside this folder by running the following commands

cd nginx-conf/local
touch nginx.conf

Add this inside the nginx.conf file

server {
	listen 80;
	server_name localhost; #on production use domian.extension www.domain.extension
	location / {
		proxy_pass http://web:5000;
	}
}

Now, you are ready to go!

Run the app! 🖥

docker-compose -f local-docker-compose.yml up

Now go to http://localhost:80 and start browsing 😉