Experimental Server

This is server code for a RESTful web service created with Python and the Flask microframework. This web service used to sit on a digitalocean droplet.

Currently supported REST clients

• To Dooli: A to do list application. View Code

Technologies Used

• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• Vagrant

Setup

1. After cloning this repo to your machine, cd into 'Experimental_Server'.
2. Enter the command vagrant up. This command can take awhile to run. Ignore the error default: stdin: is not a tty.
3. Enter the command vagrant ssh.
4. Once vagrant is up and running cd into '/vagrant'.
5. Create the data tables using the python database_setup.py command.
6. (Optional) Then use the python populate_database.py command to add some filler data.
7. At this point, all the data should be setup. You can launch the application using the python __init__.py command. Just open up a browser and navigate to 'localhost:5000'.

Helpful Resources

• https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-your-first-digitalocean-droplet-virtual-server
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-flask-application-on-an-ubuntu-vps

Author

Geordy Williams