Flask-Session Tutorial

• Tutorial: https://hackersandslackers.com/flask-user-sessions-and-redis/
• Demo: https://flasksession.hackersandslackers.com/login

Getting Started

Get set up locally in two steps:

Configure

Replace the values in .env.example with your values and rename this file to .env:

• ENVIRONMENT: Enable (development or production).
• FLASK_APP: Entry point of your application; should be wsgi.py.
• FLASK_DEBUG: Toggle debug mode on (True) or off (False).
• SECRET_KEY: Randomly generated string of characters used to encrypt your app's data.
• SQLALCHEMYDATABASEURI: Connection URI of a SQL database (ie: mysql+pymysql://myuser:mypassword@host.example.com:1234/mydatabase)
• REDIS_URI: Connection URI of a Redis instance (ie: redis://:password@host.com:1234)

LESS_BIN (optional for static assets)*: Path to your local LESS installation via which lessc. ASSETS_DEBUG (optional)*: Debug asset creation and bundling in development. LESSRUNIN_DEBUG (optional)*: Debug LESS while in development. COMPRESSOR_DEBUG (optional)*: Debug asset compression while in development.

Remember never to commit secrets saved in .env files to Github.

Installation

Get up and running with make deploy:

git clone https://github.com/hackersandslackers/flask-session-tutorial.git
cd flask-session-tutorial
make deploy

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