MySQL + Flask Boilerplate Project

This repo contains a boilerplate setup for spinning up 2 docker containers:

1. A MySQL 8 container for obvious reasons
2. A Python Flask container to implement a REST API

How to setup and start the containers

Important - you need Docker Desktop installed

1. Clone this repository.
2. Create a file named db_root_password.txt in the secrets/ folder and put inside of it the root password for MySQL.
3. Create a file named db_password.txt in the secrets/ folder and put inside of it the password you want to use for the webapp user.
4. In a terminal or command prompt, navigate to the folder with the docker-compose.yml file.
5. Build the images with docker compose build
6. Start the containers with docker compose up. To run in detached mode, run docker compose up -d.

For setting up a Conda Web-Dev environment:

1. conda create -n webdev python=3.9
2. conda activate webdev
3. pip install flask flask-mysql flask-restful cryptography flask-login