Zappster

Flask webapp to send AR greeting cards. Hosted with Pythonanywhere

Setup

Set up flask on Pythonanywhere

1. Go to the web tab and add a new web app

   • select flask > python 3.8
   • choose the following path (same folder name as repo) /home/<username>/Zappster/flask_app.py

2. Change the working directory of the app to: /home/<username>/Zappster (to access the database from the same folder as the webapp)

3. Optional: If your flask app is not called flask_app.py, edit the WSGI file (/var/www/<username>_pythonanywhere_com_wsgi.py):

   • Change flask_app.py > <flask app file name>

4. Add a path for static files /static/ > /home/<username>/Zappster/static/

Clone the repo

1. Open a pythonanywhere bash console
   

2. (if your repository is private) generate SSH keys (no password is fine)

   ssh-keygen -t ed25519

   Copy this SSH key into your github account settings for access via the console

   cat .ssh/id_ed25519.pub

3. Remove the default folder and clone the repo in the console

   rm -rf /home/<username>/Zappster
   git clone git@github.com:loomkoom/Zappster.git
   

4. refresh the web app

Usage

git pull in the bash console whenever you want to keep the website up to date.

! You might have to delete and recreate the database to solve merge errors. see error log: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/user/<username>/files/var/log/zappsters.pythonanywhere.com.error.log

In larger projects it's also possible to automate it on the free tier, using github webhooks and an endpoint on your webserver that pulls the updated repo.
For more info see this tutorial: https://medium.com/@aadibajpai/deploying-to-pythonanywhere-via-github-6f967956e664