Flask Boilerplate

This repository contains a sample minimal Flask application structure that includes:

• SQLAlchemy
• Alembic
• Celery
• py.test

It runs on both Python 2.7 and 3.5.

Installation

First, clone the repository and create a virtualenv. Then install the requirements:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Before running the application make sure that your local PostgreSQL server is up. Then create the databases:

CREATE DATABASE flask_example;
CREATE DATABASE flask_example_test;

Now you can create the tables using Alembic:

./manage.py db upgrade

Finally you can run the application:

./manage.py runserver

or play in the Python REPL:

./manage.py shell

In order to run unit tests in py.test invoke:

./manage.py test

Contribution

We are happy to see your way of scaffolding Flask applications. Feel free to submit an issue with your ideas or comments.