Flask Boilerplate

Your simple, yet opinionated, boilerplate for Flask projects.

Why?

I've been using Flask for a while now, and I've found myself repeating the same steps over and over again when starting a new project. In order to save myself (and you) some time, I decided to create this boilerplate.

Features

• User authentication (login, logout, register)
• 'Sane' defaults for Flask configuration
• A understandable project file structure
• A simple SQLite database (you can, of course, replace this with any other database that SQLAlchemy supports)
• Jinja2 templates with Flowbite (Tailwind) CSS (CDN version)
• A CLI for managing aspects of your project (use kettle --help to see the available commands)*

*In order to use kettle, you will need to install it with pip install --editable cli from the root directory of the project.

Get started

I'm assuming you have Python 3.11+ installed on your machine and that you are comfortable with using the command line on your machine.

1. Clone this repository and cd into it
2. Create a virtual environment with python3 -m venv venv (or python -m venv venv if you're on Windows) and activate it with source venv/bin/activate (or venv\Scripts\activate.bat if you're on Windows)
3. Install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run the application with flask run (or python -m flask run if you're on Windows) - you can also append --debug to enable debug mode
5. Open your browser and go to http://localhost:5000

And voilà, you're ready to open this project in your favorite editor and start working on your next big thing!

Contributing

If you have any suggestions or improvements, then feel free to open an issue or a pull request. I'll be happy to take a look at it!

Thanks

Icons

The boiler, gears and download icon (as seen on the front page) are sourced from Icons8.

CSS/UI

The CSS and UI is sourced from Flowbite, which is a library of components and layouts for Tailwind CSS.

User profile avatars

The user profile avatars are sourced from UI Avatars.

Libraries

• Flask
• Flask-Login
• Flask-WTF
• Flask-SQLAlchemy
• python-dotenv

See the requirements.txt for the full list of libraries that is used.

License/Legal/"Don't sue me, thanks" section

The boilerplate is not licensed, however, the libraries used are. Please check the respective licenses for each library.

Disclaimer: Flask is a trademark of Pallets, and is not affiliated with this project in any way.