Harrison's Developer Blog

I created a personal developer blog using Flask, Jinja, and Bootstrap. This website is a refactor of a bootstrap template in order to run on a Flask Webapp. The point of the blog would be to post articles about my career progression and projects as a software developer. I've created a few sample posts and comments to demonstrate the would-be functionality of the website.

Articles, users, and comments are stored on a local sqlite database, and retreived using Flask-SQLAlchemy.

I used gunicorn to deploy the webapp to Heroku for testing, but the app is currently not deployed to a live server.

📚 Tech Stack:

• HTML, Jinja
• CSS, Bootstrap
• Flask
• Sqlite / SQLAlchemy

🧰 Full CRUD operation:

1. Create blog posts & comments
2. View all blog posts & comments
3. Update/Edit blog posts & comments
4. Delete blog post & comments

🔐 User Sessions & Auth with Flask:

• Login and Logout
• Recognize administrator user
• Protect routes from unauthorized users
• View blog posts and post comments by user

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How to Run the Webapp Locally:

Installation and Setup

1. Clone the repository, and navigate to the webapp's directory:

   git clone <project_url>
   
   cd <project_directory>

2. Install the package requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Run the webapp:

   python3 server.py
   

Admin Login

1. Using the site header, navigate to the Login page.

2. Login with the following credentials:

   username: admin
   password: testpass
   

3. You now have the ability to create, edit, and delete blog posts.

User Login:

1. Using the site header, navigate to the Login page.

2. Login with the following credentials:

   username: user2
   password: testpass
   

3. You can now view the site of a regular user without admin privelages.

   • You can post comments
   • You can view posts, even when logged out.

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Website Demo: