ayco.io-flask/README.md

Ayo Ayco's personal site built with Flask

Background

Yet another rewrite of my personal site

Set up

1. Install Flask and dependencies. The following are the steps for MacOS/Linux:
   1. create python environment: python3 -m venv .venv
   2. activate python env: . .venv/bin/activate
   3. install Flask: pip install Flask
2. To start development:
   1. Set environment variable for the flask app entry point with export FLASK_APP=api.py
   2. run the development server: flask run; note that the default port (5000) needs to be open
3. After development session, deactivate the python env with: deactivate