Flask-User and Flask-Admin in one app

This code base serves as starting point for writing your next Flask application.

Code characteristics

• Well organized directories with lots of comments
  • app
    • commands
    • models
    • static
    • templates
    • views
  • tests
• Includes test framework (py.test and tox)
• Includes database migration framework (alembic)
• Sends error emails to admins for unhandled exceptions

Setting up a development environment

We assume that you have git and virtualenv installed.

cd ~
virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
mkdir -p ~/www/my_app
cd www
git clone https://github.com/Alexmod/Flask-User-and-Flask-admin.git  my_app
cd my_app/
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuring SMTP

Edit the local_settings.py file.

Specifically set all the MAIL_... settings to match your SMTP settings

Note that Google's SMTP server requires the configuration of "less secure apps". See https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en

Note that Yahoo's SMTP server requires the configuration of "Allow apps that use less secure sign in". See https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN27791.html

Initializing the Database

# Create DB tables and populate the roles and users tables
python manage.py init_db

# Or if you have Fabric installed:
fab init_db

Running the app

# Start the Flask development web server
python manage.py runserver

# Or if you have Fabric installed:
fab runserver

Point your web browser to http://localhost:5000/

You can make use of the following users:

• email [email protected] with password Password1.
• email [email protected] with password Password1.

Running the automated tests

# Start the Flask development web server
py.test tests/

# Or if you have Fabric installed:
fab test

Trouble shooting

If you make changes in the Models and run into DB schema issues, delete the sqlite DB file app.sqlite.