Instructions for setting up a flask application

[mapsam]

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[migurski]

Planning to write this, or looking for someone to?

[mapsam]

I can volunteer myself, but will probably need good amount of help confirming it's the best way!

[migurski]

Are you looking to get to Hello World, or more like getting an existing application up and running?

We’ve had complete setup guides at CfA for other frameworks before (1, 2, 3, 4), and typically they are of limited value and fall out of date very quickly. The Rails guide here is not much of a model.

[mapsam]

Hm, I guess I'm not sure. I brought this up while thinking about what to link to here if someone wanted to install it on their computer. So probably for existing applications.

Since each Flask project is likely going to be unique for how the application is actually initialized, the virtualenv instructions may suffice.

[daguar]

I think your use-case is primarily for others looking to get it setup locally to help out developing.

So for your situation, I'd suggest doing this in your Readme:

• Linking to the Python-virtualenv howto https://github.com/codeforamerica/howto/blob/master/Python-Virtualenv.md
• Add instructions to get your specific app running locally (and maybe running tests? :D :D :D )

[migurski]

Probably a link to Virtualenv for that one would be sufficient; Procfile too when you get that far. Flask plays by enough of Python’s rules that it’s possibly not necessary to give it its own guide.