Nectus 🚀

Flask Boilerplate to quickly get started with production grade flask application with some additional packages and configuration prebuilt.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or higher
• PostgreSQL
• Docker(optional)

Project setup

# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/yezz123/Nectus.git

# move to the project folder
$ cd Nectus

Creating virtual environment 📦

• Using virtualenv 📦
• Create a virtual environment for this project 📦

# creating virtual environment
$ virtualenv venv

# activating the virtual environment
$ source venv/bin/activate

# installing dependencies
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

• Create a .env file from .env.sample and set appropriate environment variables before running the project

# Database configuration
DB_HOST=
DB_Name=
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=
DB_PORT=

# JWT configuration
JWT_SECRET_KEY=
UPLOAD_FOLDER =

# APP configuration
HOST=
PORT=

# Flask configuration
FLASK_APP=main.py
FLASK_ENV=development

NOTE: The Pre-configured environment variables are for using Docker.

Database Migration

• Make sure the database name username, password and host have been set in the env

• Migrate and upgrade database into your database management (for this case postgreeSQL)

flask db init

flask db migrate -m "create new table"

flask db upgrade

Running app

• If you feel that everything can be run, then run the Flask API

flask run

Running the Application in Docker 🐳

• We have the Dockerfile created in above section. Now, we will use the Dockerfile to create the image of the Flask app and then start the application container.
• I provide a simplified way by Using a Pre-configured Makefile just write in your CLI make help and use the commands.

Note: About the preconfigured .env.sample, i use it to pass all checks relate to Github Actions, you could check both the Docker-compose.yml and Build.yml.

Preconfigured Packages

Includes preconfigured packages to kick start flask app by just setting appropriate configuration.

Package	Usage
flask-cors	Configuring CORS
PyJWT	Python library which allows you to encode and decode JSON Web Tokens (JWT).

License 📝

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.