Building Data-Driven Web Apps with Flask and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion
Lecture: Creating a new Flask app
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Well, the first thing we had to do
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to get started with Flask was
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get started with Flask! And we saw that we could do that
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by creating a virtual environment
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pip installing Flask, it would take along the dependencies
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and probably we want SQLAlchemy in there as well.
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So we're going to do that when we get started
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and we saw there's two core ways.
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Of course, we can always use the command-line, right?
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Create a directory, create a environment
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activate it, pip install flask and sqlalchemy
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create a file and just start editing, you know.
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Typically that first file is called app.py.
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We saw that you'll benefit from much more structure
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than the standard Flask tutorial
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'Hello, world' type thing would imply you would ever want.
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But hopefully, going through this whole course
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and seeing this app put together
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you'll build a more structured thing than that.
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So you could always start with the terminal
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and just go that way, or we saw on Pycharm you could say
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New project, Flask.
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Go and create me a virtual environment
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while you're doing it. So either way you want to do it, totally fine.
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And that's how we got started.