suprincesu/library-management-system

Library Management System

It is a simple library management system where admin can manage books along with auther and students can apply for the book

Tech Used

• Python flask
• Mysql

To run application in development mode

• Make sure you have python installed in your system.
• Make sure you have mysql running.
• Copy .env.example to .env and fill up required values
• Generate a virtual enviroment to segregate the application dependencies with following command

  python -m venv env

• Activate virutal command with following command

  source env/Scripts/activate

• Now install all the application dependencies

  pip install -r requirement.txt

• Install python-dateutil

  pip install python-dateutil

• Migrate database with following command

  flask db upgrade

• To seed the database

  flask seed run

• Finally run application

  flask run

To run application with docker

• Make sure your system has docker and docker-compose installed
• Then generate an image of our application with following command

  docker build -t lms-app .

• After image built succesfully, run docker-compose command to containarize our application

  docker-compose up 

Navigate to localhost:8080/login

  Email: [email protected]
  Password: admin123

To generate migration files

flask db init
flask db migrate -m "Initial migration"

Flask environment variables

Name	Description
FLASK_APP	Name of the application i.e app
FLASK_ENV	Run time environment
FLASK_RUN_PORT	Port of the application
FLASK_RUN_HOST	Host of the application
FLASK_DEBUG	Boolean value to enable/disable debug mode

Application environment variables

Name	Description
SECRET_KEY	Secret key of the application
DATABASE_URI	Database uri for connection

Additional links

• https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-docker-on-amazon-linux-2/