Rookie Hub is a flask web app built by Aaron Omale. Rookie Hub is a website that generates quizzes for rookie developers to test their knowledge on HTML, CSS, and javascript. It was built as final project for Harvard's introduction to computer science course (CS50).
Flask, Javascript, Python, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- This project has a content management system which can be used to automatically add questions to the questions bank using a form
- Dynamic grading system
- Dark mode toggle
- Google Recaptcha
This project took me over 3 weeks to complete because I wanted to do something beyond my comfort zone. So I had to dive deeper into learning more of python programming language to be able to utilize some methods and functions which helped me with backend tools. I also had some trouble with the overall design choices and fonts to use. I wanted to make it look like a fun website. So I did some research on that too. The major challenge I faced was deploying the app to Heroku. I learnt a LOT!!!
- Most of the heavy lifting happened in the app.py file. Which contains the routes, table declararion using SQLAlchemy, and other configurations like recaptcha.
- Templates contains all the html files rendered to the client side, including the layout (default) page.
- Static folder contains all the Javascript files, CSS files, and images.
- Helpers.py contain all the functions I used to make my code a little cleaner and readable.
- formParser.py contain helper functions for the content management.
- Requirements.txt contains all the technologies installed mostly using pip. It was automatically updated using
pip install freeze > requirements.txt
- During developement I used sqlite as my database, but I had to switch to postgre SQL during deployment, because heroku does not allow sqlite. I did that by changing the SQLAlchemy DATABASE URI to:
postgresql:///"link provided"
- Procfile: This tells heroku dynos what to do with the app.
I learnt a lot from so many blogs and youtube videos. I cannot remember all. But I want to mention stack overflow, Medium, W3Schools, and other websites with free educational resources that change lives. I also wang to thank my friend Obafemi Joseph, for always explaining things to me whenever I'm stuck, and also fixing and debugging my codes.
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