Bars and Bands is a musical venue and artist booking site that facilitates the discovery and bookings of shows between local performing artists and venues. This site lets you list new artists and venues, discover them, and list shows with artists as a venue owner.
Tech stack includes:
- SQLAlchemy ORM ORM library
- PostgreSQL database
- Python3 and Flask as server language and server framework
- Flask-Migrate for creating and running schema migrations
- HTML, CSS, and Javascript with Bootstrap 3 for website's frontend
├── README.md
├── app.py *** the main driver of the app. Includes SQLAlchemy models.
"python app.py" to run after installing dependences
├── config.py *** Database URLs, CSRF generation, etc
├── error.log
├── forms.py *** Forms
├── requirements.txt *** The dependencies needed to be installed with "pip3 install -r requirements.txt"
├── static
│ ├── css
│ ├── font
│ ├── ico
│ ├── img
│ └── js
└── templates
├── errors
├── forms
├── layouts
└── pages
Overall:
- Models are located in the
MODELS
section ofapp.py
. - Controllers are also located in
app.py
. - The web frontend is located in
templates/
, which builds static assets deployed to the web server atstatic/
. - Web forms for creating data are located in
form.py
First, install Flask if you haven't already.
$ cd ~
$ sudo pip3 install Flask
To start and run the local development server,
- Initialize and activate a virtualenv:
$ cd YOUR_PROJECT_DIRECTORY_PATH/
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate
- Install the dependencies:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run the development server:
$ export FLASK_APP=myapp
$ export FLASK_ENV=development # enables debug mode
$ python3 app.py
- Navigate to Home page http://localhost:5000