Review Anything

An example of a web app in Flask where you can review anything.

Getting Started

This app was built using Python 3.6 so I would suggest that as the version.

• Make sure you have the right version of Python installed on your machine.
• Fork & Clone this repo.
• Create a virtualenv and activate it.
• Change directory cd /path/to/repo
• Install required libraries pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create the database python create_db.py
• Run python review_anything_app.py

Features

• Creating Users
• Login/Logout
• Write Reviews
• Up/Down vote reviews
• Comment on reviews (coming soon)

Tech Implementations

• Persistent data to a database
• Sessions
• CSRF Tokens
• SQL Injection prevention
• Password hashing
• Design templates

Setup on pythonanywhere.com

• Create an account on pythonanywhere.com (a free account will work)

• Open a new bash console

• Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/fermanjj/Review-Anything-Web-App.git

• Change directories to the new repo cd review-anything-web-app/

• Create a virtual environment virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3.6 ~/py36

• Active the newly created virtualenv source ~/py36/bin/activate

• Install the required libraries pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create the database python create_db.py

• Return to the dashboard (you can close the bash console)

• Add a new web app under the web tab

• Select manual configuration as the web framework and python 3.6 as the python version

NOTE:

For the next few steps, make sure to change user to your correct user directory.

• Change the working directory to the location of the repo /home/user/review-anything-web-app

• Change the source code to the path to the /home/user/review-anything-web-app/review_anything_app.py file

• Change the virtualenv to the newly created virtual environment /home/user/py36

• Open the WSGI file and uncomment appropriate code under the flask section, changing the names like so

import sys
path = '/home/user/review-anything-web-app'
if path not in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(path)
from review_anything_app import app as application

• Reload the app and you're done!