Building Data-Driven Web Apps with Flask and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Your first Flask site
Lecture: Concept: Creating the starter project PyCharm
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We saw it was super fast and easy to create a new project
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a Flask app in PyCharm.
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Most of the time it was just me talking.
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I think if I just typed it would be like 10 seconds
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or something ridiculous like that.
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But none the less, let's review the steps really really quickly.
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Here we have PyCharm.
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It loads like this if there is no project loaded.
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Otherwise, you will have to go to the file menu
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or something like that.
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We're going to go over here and hit create new project.
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It defaults to pure Python
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but you want Flask, and then remember the steps.
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We're going to install Flask and other dependencies
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create the directory structure, and what not.
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So, right here.
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New virtual environment, that's checked by default.
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More settings, Jinja, and a templates folder
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checked by default.
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So we're going to install Flask
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create the virtual environment
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and it also creates the app.py all at once.
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Boom, this is what we get.
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Now you saw we probably want to add
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a little more structure to the directory layout here.
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But you can do that along the way
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as you add your first CSS file
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as you add your first view model and what not.
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Here we are, quick and easy, just like that.
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Then if we want to run it
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we're just going to click this little button here.
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It's going to fire it up.
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Set a couple of environment variables.
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Flask app is app.py.
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The environment is development.
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And you saw if we want to edit that run configuration
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we can toggle the debug true or false.
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Off it goes, click the link in the bottom here and ta-da!
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You now have your Flask app all put together
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laid out and running using PyCharm, super easy!
