Events Dashboard

Based on Tim's tutorial (Youtube video link), which btw is a really good intro to Flask, authentification and databases! We built a kind of primitive social media/notice board where anyone can view the dashboard without an account.

The app was deployed using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk - My events dashboard

• You need to create a account to add or delete items
  • Only users who created the item/event can delete it
• Adding an image to each item is optional - all images are resized to a width of 620 pixels before being saved to the database
  • There is no image preview when adding a note, so do not fret

Deploying locally

First install the required libraries (python 3.9)

pip install -r requirements.txt

Next launch the flask app

python application.py

Learnings/Notes

• AWS scans for the variable application for deployment, so the Flask App bokject cannot bet named anything else
• AWS by default has a 3MB upload limit. This can be changed by specifying an nginx configuration file <custom_config>.conf, and an additional config file <custom_config>.config that tells the container to reload nginx
• Elastic beanstalk access to s3
• Http to https