Flask - blog

Initial Project Setup Required:

to create a virtual environment (first run only)

• on Windows:

python -m venv venv

• on *nix:

python3 -m venv venv

to activate the environment (every startup)

• on Windows:

venv/Scripts/activate

• on *nix:

source venv/bin/activate

Project Dependencies

• to install a particular library:

pip install <LIBRARY>

    e.g.: pip install flask

• to install all dependencies recursively from requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• to see all installed dependencies in the console:

pip freeze

• to save the project dependencies in requirements.txt file:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Running the project

• to run (after venv/Scripts/activate and specifying FLASK_APP=...; as well FLASK_ENV=development - if desired)

flask run