Flaskbooks

A very light social network for sharing books built using Flask and Python 3

• /books: All books (homepage).
• /books/new: Create a new book.
• /book/book_id: Book page.
• /book/book_id/edit: Edit book.
• /book/book_id/delete: Delete book.
• /genres: All genres.
• /genres/new: Create a new genre.
• /genre/genre_id: Genre page.
• /genre/genre_id/edit: Edit genre.
• /genre/genre_id/delete: Delete genre.
• /users: All users.
• /user/user_id: User page.
• /user/user_id/edit: Update user info.
• /auth: Login page.

• /books/JSON: All books JSON.
• /book/book_id/JSON: Book JSON.
• /genres/JSON: All genres JSON.
• /genre/genre_id/JSON: Genre JSON.
• /users/JSON: All users JSON.
• /user/user_id/JSON: User JSON.

1. go to https://console.developers.google.com/project and login with your Google account.
2. Create a new project
3. Select "API's and Auth -> Credentials -> Create a new OAuth client ID" from the project menu
4. Select Web Application
5. On the consent screen, type in a product name and save.
6. In Authorized javascript origins add: http://0.0.0.0:5000 and http://localhost:5000
7. Click create client ID
8. Click download JSON and save it into the root director of this project.
9. Rename the JSON file "client_secret.json"
10. Replace the old client_secret.json file with yours

Please ensure you have Python, Vagrant and VirtualBox installed. This project uses a pre-congfigured Vagrant virtual machine which has all required packages installed.

1. In the root directory, use the command vagrant up, this will install the vagrant machine.
2. Once it's complete, type vagrant ssh to login to the VM.
3. In the vm, cd /vagrant/flaskbooks
4. type make to install dependencies and setup the database
5. type python3 application.py to start the server.

1. Use this tutorial from digitalocean to set up your Nginx and run the application on Ubuntu 16.04
2. type make to install dependencies and setup the database

Now you can open in a webpage by going to either: http://0.0.0.0:5000, http://localhost:5000, or your set domain

• static: Bootstrap, images, styles
• templates: html templates
• application.py: Flask application
• client_secrets.json: Google client secrets / replace this with yours
• dbhelpers.py: common helper functions for database objects
• helpers.py: common helper functions
• model.py: data model objects

flask-books stores data using SQLite3 and SQLAlchemy for object mapping.

• User
• Book
• Genre
• Like

model.py

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Your feedback is always appreciated and welcomed. Please send me an email to omaralbeik@gmail.com if you have any questions, or fork the project and get your hand dirty with the code and submit a Pull Request :)