teacher-notes.md

Teacher Notes

This doc contains instructions for creating a starter flask app.

Prerequisites:

• Python 3.6 or later installed
• Pip installed

Part 1: Initial Project Setup - Hello World!

1. First, we want to make our project directory and create a virtual env, i.e.python3 -m venv venv. We can use this virtual environment to install packages into.
2. Active your virtual env (platform dependent).
3. Install flask with pip install flask. From now on, this is how we will add packages/dependencies to our project: pip install [package-name].
4. Make app/__init__.py and first route in index.py.
5. export FLASK_APP=tutorial.py & flask run

Part 2: User Logins

1. Make models.py with user models and flask-sqlalchemy and flask-migrate
2. flask db init, flask db migrate, flask db upgrade
3. flask-wtf
4. Signup route and form: have it redirect to home only for now
5. change successful signup to create and insert a user
6. login route and form
7. update index.html to say hello to logged in user