Find Your Furmily - Paw Match

Features

• Responsive website
• Search pet rescue organizations
• Search and add pets to favorite
  • App will suggest 10 or less possible pets according to a user's preference
  • A User can select yes to add a pet to their favorite pet list
  • Show a user's favorite pet list

Built with

• Database: PostgreSQL
• Backend: Flask, Flask-SQLalchemy, Python
• Frontend: Jinja, Bootstrap, JQuery
• API : Petfinder API.

Setup

Setting up database on postgreSQL

1. start your PostgreSQL server and enter your password.

   $sudo service postgresql start

2. Create database in PostgreSQL (furmily_db is the database name)

   $createdb furmily_db

3. Make sure you are in the root of this project folder where seed.py is saved.

4. Create tables by using existing seed.py file.

   $python3 seed.py

Starting Flask app on your local computer

0. Make sure to replace environment variables API_KEY,API_SECRET, SECRET_KEY, DemoUsername, DemoPassword with your own. You can import them from a separate file. Also, make sure to comment out environment variables set up for deployment.

1. Navigate to the project folder

2. Create Virtual Environment

   $python3 -m venv venv

3. Open Virtual Environment. You will see (venv) appear in front of $

   $source venv/bin/activate

4. install dependencies

   $pip3 install -r requirements.txt

5. Run application

   $flask run