Daniel's Blog

This is a blog built entirely from scratch with flask following a tutorial. I wrote almost the codes with the help of documentation of new libraries, stack overflow and previous knowledge.

You can check out the live website here

To run it locally on your machine

Clone the Repo

Fork the repository and clone it to your machine using

git clone https://github.com/DanAdewole/My-Blog.git

Change directory

Change directory to where you cloned the repository

cd My-Blog

Create a virtual eenvironment in the Project level folder

Run this command while in the My-Blog directory to create a virtualenvironment called venv

virtualenv venv

Activate the Environement

To activate the environment, run this command

venv\scripts\activate

Install all Dependencies

To install all packages needed for the app to work, run this command

pip install -r requirements.txt

Insert random secret key

Make use of Djecrety to generate your secret key. On line 18 in the main.py file, there is app.config['SECRET_KEY'], replace the os.environ.get("SECRET_KEY") with secret key generated from djecrety

Run the Program

Depending on your IDE, go to the main.py file and run the main.py file

To Contribute

Note: I removed the contact me page because I couldn't get it to work at this time. I tried to send the message via smtplib but I wasn't getting it. Any help is appreciated. The code can be found in main.py, at the contact function.