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Chapter: Course Conclusion
Lecture: The final Pyramid cookiecutter template
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Now you've learned so many things, and one of the things we spent a lot of time with was let's start from a beginning pyramid web application,
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and let's add a bunch of things to it, let's add handlers, let's add form handling
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let's ad data access, let's add Rollbar, let's add logging and on and on and on.
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We added all of these things, and if you want to start over for your own project,
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one possibility would be to take the source code like near the end of the project
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and adapt that to your business, but this might be a better option here-
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so what I've done is I've taken all of the ideas and the learning from the course
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that we're working on, and I've bundled them up into a cookiecutter template so that means you just need to run a single CLI command
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and you'll be in a much more customized place with your own settings and everything to get started with something that's more or less
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the final app that we are working with. Here's the cookiecutter template, if you browse through here
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you can see things, it's like better factored to organized it has a master layout, chameleon language, it has handlers,
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user management with passlib, bootstrap already integrated, error monitoring, logbook, all of these different things,
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it even has a cms which we haven't even talked about in the course. All of these things have been added here for.
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Now let me just show you how to use this. So let's start out entirely from scratch, let's go to the desktop here
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and let's mkdir testing or experimenting or whatever, you can put this where you really put your code
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now I want to start as if this is a brand new machine maybe you don't have everything set up on this particular machine
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so let's start by having a virtual environment; so here we'll create virtual environment .env in Python 3
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and then we'll activate it, all right so use the dot to apply that to the shell you can see our prompt has changed to .env,
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that means this is activated so if I do like a pip list you'll see there's only two things, let's go ahead and notice set of tools that's pretty old,
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so let's just do this. So we'll run this command, pip install-u for upgrade set of tools, because there's actually
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that is something like eight versions higher so the things we're going to do later probably are better off having that;
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so now we just have these two things, what we're going to do is we are going to need these cookiecutter, we're going to install cookiecutter
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I've already downloaded it, but you just might come of the internet that's all set up well and god, so all we have to do is say cookiecutter
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and that url that we got from github, right there, mikeckennedy/cookiecutter-pyramid-talk-Python-starter
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first time you run this it will ask no questions and it won't ask this question anyway
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but because I've already got it it'll ask me to verify to get a new version. Now it's going to ask for a project name, be a little careful here
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if you name things like test or something, if you name it a thing that is already a Python package, in Python,
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that's a bad name, I'll call this the web app, like this. Notice it's going to guess the_underscore_web_app, try to take a shot at that
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this would be talk Python, and let say this is talkpython.fm it says suggest contact@talkPython, we can give a description for all the metatags
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and then if we have our API key for MailChimp and our smtp server set up
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and our Rollbar account set up, all of those things we could just type them here
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and it would automatically set it all up, but that's not what happened here
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it's not really worth doing, right, you just have those keys working basically. So now if we look here, we have the web app, let's go into the web app
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and notice a couple of things, we have a requirements, this is the thing you should install or the set of things you should install for production
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and then this here, actually pulls those in, and adds a bunch of other stuff that we're going to need for development.
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So what we need to do is a couple of things, we could say Python setup.py develop that's one of the things we have to do
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it will install a bunch of stuff, and give us little message to carry on at the end.
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Okay, that all ran well, and it says look, you should make sure you install if you're doing dev work you should also do this
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pip 3 because we have a virtual environment, it doesn't matter pip, pip3 install -r requirements-dev, so this is all the stuff like testing
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and the debug toolbar stuff like that that we'll need to run locally. Now the last thing to do is just p serve,
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the either development.any or production.any we'll pick the development, because hey, this is develop machine
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and look at that, all of our logging, all the stuff that we've added here
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initializing logging, level info, the Python version is 3.6.1 at the time of this recording,
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here is all of the versions that we depend upon, including our Python version up there
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and it looks like we're running in dev mode with this being our database, all of this should look entirely familiar, right,
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this all comes from the various stages of this course. So let's pull this up and see what we get here, and look at that,
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the web app, right here, this is the web app app and you can go and cruise around, you could even sign in and register
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to actually use the database that's there, you can play around to cms page here's a dynamic cms page, you can use for your site,
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the mailing list would work if you had put your id in there and even you get a little copyright, all that kind of stuff down there.
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If you want to get started on a project, after you've taken this course, and you want to kind of use the same ideas,
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probably the easiest way to do that would be to use cookiecutter and this cookiecutter template to start from more or less the end state
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but entirely customize it with your web site name and your keys and all that stuff.