flask-celery-example

An example to run flask with celery including:

• app factory setup
• periodic tasks with celery beat
• flask cli script for an ipython shell and url_map

installation

create virtualenv

python36 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

start redis backend (using docker)

docker run -d --name redis -p 6379:6379 redis

run celery worker

celery -A celery_worker:celery worker --loglevel=DEBUG

run celery beat for periodic tasks

celery -A celery_worker:celery beat --loglevel=INFO

run flask app

env 'FLASK_APP=manage.py' flask run