Could not locate flask app

[kabirwalia8300]

I found this issue while trying to recreate another issue. It was on a new clone in master and in a fresh virtual env - so I went through the steps of installation. See if anybody can reproduce or can suggest a solution.

================= MINIBOT CLIENT GUI =================
=========== STARTING BASESTATION ===============

• Tip: There are .env or .flaskenv files present. Do "pip install python-dotenv" to use them.

cs-minibot-platform@1.0.0 webpack
webpack

Webpack is watching the files…

• Environment: production
  WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
  Use a production WSGI server instead.
• Debug mode: off
  Usage: flask run [OPTIONS]

Error: Could not locate a Flask application. You did not provide the "FLASK_APP" environment variable, and a "wsgi.py" or "app.py" module was not found in the current directory.

[slawrence100]

I was able to replicate this bug by unstalling the python-dotenvpackage from my (working) virtual environment. Try this:

pip install python-dotenv

You did say it was a clean install from master though (and python-dotenv is in requirements.txt), so this might not be the solution you're looking for.