The Pitcherr

Pitcherr, 2021.

By Peter Kennedy

Description

A Flask powered application where the user can:

• Post a one minute pitch on any category among the listed.
• View, like and comment on other people's pitches.
• Create an account and view own profile.

The site is deployed on Heroku.

Setup/Installation

On your terminal, clone the project.

$ git clone git@github.com:peterken674/pitcher.git

Navigate into the cloned project.

$ cd pitcher

Create a start.sh file.

$ touch start.sh

Inside start.sh, addv the following. The email will be used to send welcome emails to new users who sign up, Gmail is recommended.

#!/bin/sh
export FLASK_ENV=development
export MAIL_USERNAME=<YOUR_EMAIL>
export MAIL_PASSWORD=<EMAIL_PASSWORD>
export SECRET_KEY=<SECRET_KEY>

python3 manage.py server

Create the virtual environment and install the requirements from requirements.txt

$ python3 -m venv virtual
$ . virtual/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Give the start.sh file execution permissions.

$ chmod a+x start.sh

Run the program.

$ ./start.sh

Known Bugs

• Sign up redirect to login page sometimes fails but the user is created anyway.

Technologies Used

• Flask(Python)
• Jinja2
• Unittest

Support and contact details

If you have any suggestions, questions or in case of a fire, you can reach the developer via email.

License

Copyright © 2021 peterken674