flask_hackernews

flask_hackernews is a minimalistic hackernews clone.

Built so that beginners who want a hackernews-like application can quickly get to work.

Greatly inspired by the awesome flask megatutorial, one of the best ressources to learn more about flask.

It uses:

• flask as a web framework.
• flask-sqlalchemy as an ORM.
• SQLite as a database.
• heroku for a simple deployment.
• Other less known libraries listed inrequirements.txt

Contents

• Features
• Set up
• Deployment
• About

Features

• user authentication
• upvoting on comments and posts
• karma
• user profiles
• post ranking algorithms based on the 'official' one
• comment replies, threading and more!

Set up Instructions

Follow these instructions if you wish to run this project locally

• clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/duarteocarmo/flask_hackernews

• create a virtual environment with the latest python version
• install requirements

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

• create a .env file in the home directory with the following structure

FLASK_APP=flasknews.py
SECRET_KEY = "yoursecretkey"
MAIL_ADMIN_ADDRESS = <admin_email_adress>
MAIL_SERVER = <admin_mail_server>
MAIL_PORT = <admin_mail_port>
MAIL_USE_TLS = 1
MAIL_USERNAME = <admin_email_adress>
MAIL_PASSWORD = <admin_email_password>

• initiate your database

(venv) $ flask db init
(venv) $ flask db upgrade

• 🎉Run!!🎉

(venv) $ flask run

• visit http://localhost:5000 to check it out.

Deployment

Follow these instructions to deploy your to the 🌎

• Heroku: follow this guide.
• Docker: follow this guide.
• Linux: follow this guide.

About

This project was built by duarteocarmo. If you have any questions, contact me!