Flask Cafe

A Python and Flask app for managing cafes and users, allowing users to favorite particular cafes and view their locations on a map. Starter code provided by Rithm School. Pair programmed with Mara Greene.

It focuses on:

• many-to-many relationships in SQLAlchemy
• having Flask run JSON API routes
• Jinja templates and validation with WTForms
• MapQuest Static Map API integration

Installation

1. Clone this repository and cd into the flask-cafe folder. In order to make the MapQuest API work you need to set an environment variable MAPQUEST_API_KEY=<your-key>

2. Make a virtual environment, install Flask, and add the project dependencies:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install flask
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Setup and seed the database:

createdb flaskcafe    
python seed.py

Seed the DB on Heroku

DATABASE_URL=$(heroku config:get DATABASE_URL -a stephaniesimms-flask-cafe) python seed.py

4. Start the server:

MAPQUEST_API_KEY=<your-key> flask run

This will run the app on http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Running Tests

1. Create test database:

createdb flaskcafe-test

2. Run tests:

python -m unittest -v tests  - to run all tests verbosely    
python -m unittest -v tests.CafeViewsTestCase  - to run tests for a specific model     
python -m unittest -v tests.CafeViewsTestCase.test_list  - to run a specific test