A Blogger clone

A blogging and social networking application made with Flask, include an Application Programming Interface and implements different unit testing strategies

Includes

• Presents an application structure that is appropriate for mediums and large applications.
• Database migrations and data seeder
• Email support
• User authentication system
• User roles and permissions
• Blogging interface
• Profile pages
• Followers
• User comments for blog posts
• RESTful webservices
  • Error handling
  • User authentication (HTTPAuth, JWT)
  • Serializing resources
  • Pagination
  • Tests
• Code coverage reports
• Web application testing
• Web services testing
• End to end testing with Selenium

Requirements

• Python 3.7
• Virtualenv

Notes

Configure your system so FLASK_APP and FLASK_DEBUG are set by default.

Installation

Inside the project directory, create the environment, activate it and install the requirements

python3 -m venv venv
. twittervotes/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements/common.txt
pip install -r requirements/dev.txt

Run the migrations

flask db upgrade

Create the following environment variables: SECRET_KEY, MAL_USERNAME, MAIL_PASSWORD

Run the application as usual

(venv) $ flask run

The unit tests can be executed as follows

(venv) $ flask test --coverage