Votr

Repository for my tutorial on How to build an online voting application with Flask and React

The Live Demo is available on heroku

NOTE: This branch contains code for the tutorial on my blog, For the latest state of this project, checkout the master branch

Table of content

• Part 1 - Introduction and installation
• Part 2 - Design and manipulate the database with SQLAlchemy
• Part 3 - Templating, authentication and static assets
• Part 4 - Building an interactive UI with ReactJS
• Part 5 - How to build a simple REST API with Flask
• Part 6 - Connecting React to a REST API
• Part 7 - Spin up an Admin dashboard quickly and easily with Flask-Admin
• Part 8 - Understanding Flask blueprints
• Part 9 - Running background tasks with celery
• Part 10 - Testing the application

The table of contents lists the main topic of focus in each part, but each article also covers other topics

Votr in action

Installation

https://github.com/danidee10/Votr.git

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

set the FLASK_APP and FLASK_DEBUG variables

export FLASK_APP=votr.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1

Finally run it with:

flask run