flaskpost

A simple blog created with Flask. Utilizes sqlite3 for storage.

Prerequisites

• Flask - the web framework
• Flask-Login - provides user session management
• Flask-SQLAlchemy - ORM
• passlib - provides hashing for passwords

All of the above can be installed through pip:

pip install <module>

Usage

1. Clone the repo
2. Run "./run.py" in your terminal
3. Open "127.0.0.1:5000" in your browser
4. Walk through the quick setup

List of things that needs to be done

1. Wrap SQL with SQLAlchemy (done)
2. Add a login system (done)
3. Require authorization from said login system to make posts (done)
4. Expand setup and make it work properly (done)
5. Add an administration page (in progress)
6. Add additional post loading (done)
7. Refactor the project from single module to package (done)
8. Make the entire thing look better

A warning that must be heeded

Do not deploy flaskpost without HTTPS. It will in its current state transmit password on setup and login in plaintext, which is not good if you're not running it over HTTPS.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE-file.