abhinand-c/team_flask

Flask app to demonstrate connecting and performing basic operations to MySQL database using MySQL connecter in python.

Flask app to demonstate connecting and performing basic operations to MySQL database using mysql connecter in python.

Performs database initialisation, Table creation, Insert operation and Select * operation.

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Instructions to run

1. Clone the repo using any of the following commands
   • git clone https://github.com/abhinand-c/team_flask.git
   • git clone [email protected]:abhinand-c/team_flask.git
   • gh repo clone abhinand-c/team_flask
2. Create .env file based on the dummy template below in your cloned repo
3. Set values in .env file, as provided by admin or for development set demo values
4. Setup & activate virtual python environment (Refer: Conda Environments or Python venv)
5. Install requirements
   pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Initialise Database with
   python .\database\initialiser.py
7. Run server using
   python runserver.py

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Dummy .env file

Copy the code below and save it in your cloned repo as .env file, also add the change values as needed.

DB_USER=username
DB_PASSWORD=password
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_NAME=databasename