Setup

• Create a virtual environment

  python3 -m venv venv

• Activate the environment

  . venv/bin/activate

• Install the packages required

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• set the configuration for the app (change accordingly to your local environment)

  cp environments/.env .env

Running the App

export FLASK_APP=app export FLASK_ENV=development flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port=4000

Running application using gunicorn

gunicorn prod:app

Deploy to heroku

• pip install gunicorn

• create Procfile in root of the application with the following

• Set Config Vars in settings of the app which contains .env fields with heroku app envionment settings

web: gunicorn run:app

• run run.py
• app is the name of the app