#100DaysOfWeb in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 1-4: Flask Intro
Lecture: Setup your Flask app as a package
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Now that we have our virtual environment created right there we need to actually create our application directory hierarchy setup, okay?
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What we're going to do, which is the more Pythonic way of doing this, I suppose, is actually package our Flask application.
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This package is going to host our application. The reason we're doing this is just to allow the app to be imported at a later date.
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It's more about scalability and growth and everything like that. You can actually just create a Flask app as we did in one our previous courses
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just with a single file but this is the better way of doing it and, as I said, it's more scalable. So, with that said take a look at this.
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This is what our hierarchy, or what our folder directory structure is going to look like. We have here our parent directory. That's the Flask folder.
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And we have our virtual environment here. What we are going to create is our Python file that defines our Flask application.
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It's nothing crazy. It's just one line of code, so we'll see that going forward. I just wanted to point that out.
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The meat of our application is going to live within our folder here, which we're creating our program in so, I've decided to name it "program".
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We have our parent directory. We have the program directory which is going to house the meat of our application. This is the package.
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Inside that, we have the dunder named file so it's a __init__.py file. That is what denotes that this is a package
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that this is a Python package, that can be imported. It has the rules in there, in that __init__.py file. And the bulk of our application is then run
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out of the routes.py file, as you can see down there. The routes file is going to create all the routes
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all the webpages, all the links for our application. It's going to have all the Python code in it. There will be other folders going forward
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but this is what we're creating now. So, go ahead, create a folder called "program". That is going to be your application directory.
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Create a demo.py file. It's just going to be blank. Create, within your program directory, an init file __init__.py, spelled exactly like that
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and a routes.py file. So, give that a go, and when you're done it will look something like this. Okay, so we have our demo.py.
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We have the program directory. We have have __init__.py and we have routes.py. Leave it there. Let's move on to the next video.