Simple Flask App

Teaching App displaying name and message in various formats.

• Technologies:

  • Flask
  • Git
  • pytest
  • mockup
  • Flake8

• In the project we use a virtual environment to create a hermetic environment for the application:

# we create a hermetic environment for application libraries in Windows OS:
# add Python interpreter

# activating hermetic environment
venv\Scripts\activate

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r test_requirements.txt
pip list

Check: tutorial venv and flask libraries.

• Run the application:

# as a program from Terminal
python main.py

# from browser or using curl
curl 127.0.0.1:5000/

• Run tests (see: http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/capture.html):

pytest
pytest --verbose -s