My Blogs

Author: Peris Oduol

• Link to live site: My blogs

Description

This is a personal blogging website where you can create and share your opinions and other users can read and comment on them. Additionally it has a feature that displays random quotes to inspire your users.

My Blogs

The user would like to.... :

• View the blog posts on the site
• Comment on blog posts
• View the most recent posts
• An email alert when a new post is made by joining a subscription.
• See random quotes on the site

The writer would like to... :

• see random quotes on the site
• sign in to the blog.
• create a blog from the application.
• delete comments that I find insulting or degrading.
• update or delete blogs I have created.

Behaviour Driven Development

Behavior	Input	Output
View blog	Click on comment	Taken to the clicked post
Click on Click Add a blog	If logged in, display form to add a blog	Redirected to the home page
Click on profile	Redirects to the profile page	User adds bio and profile picture
Click on Sign Out	Redirects to the home page	Signs user out

Getting started

Prerequisites

• python3.6
• virtual environment
• pip

Cloning

• In your terminal:

    $ git clone https://github.com/PerisOduol618/Blogs.git
    $ cd blogs
  

Running the Application

• Install virtual environment using $ python3.6 -m venv --without-pip virtual

• Activate virtual environment using $ source virtual/bin/activate

• Download pip in our environment using $ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

• Install all the dependencies from the requirements.txt file by running python3.6 pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a start.sh file in the root of the folder and add the following code:

    export MAIL_USERNAME=<your-email-address>
    export MAIL_PASSWORD=<your-email-password>
    export SECRET_KEY=<your-secret-key>
  

• Edit the configuration instance in manage.py from development to production

• To run the application, in your terminal:

    $ chmod a+x start.sh
    $ ./start.sh
  

Testing the Application

• To run the tests for the class file:

    $ python3.6 manage.py server
  

Built With

• Python3.6
• Flask
• Boostrap
• HTML
• CSS

Support and contact details

Incase you come across errors, have questions, ideas ,concerns, or want to contribute to the application, feel free to reach me at :[email protected]

License

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