Flaskr - A Simple Flask Blog

Flaskr is a minimal blog application built using the Flask web framework.
This project was developed as part of the official Flask tutorial.

🚀 Features

• User registration and login
• Authentication with hashed passwords
• Create, edit, and delete blog posts
• Simple and clean UI using Jinja templates
• Project structure using Blueprints and factory pattern
• SQLite database integration

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📦 Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/theycallmefreire/Flask-tutorial.git

2. Create and activate a virtual environment

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Linux/Mac
venv\Scripts\activate      # Windows

3. Install project in editable mode

This installs the flaskr package and its dependencies in development mode.

pip install -e .

⚙️ Running the App

First, initialize the database:

flask --app flaskr init-db

Then start the development server:

flask --app flaskr run

Now open your browser at http://127.0.0.1:5000