Elemental

A Flask MVC-style application base.

Purpose

Elemental was written to provide my most basic needs in public-facing Flask apps. A quick rundown of what it provides:

1. A signup, login, logout and hello world view
2. User-related code is dependent on flask-login and uses bcrypt for passwords
3. MongoDB as a backend with MongoEngine as the ODM
4. flask-admin to provide quick admin views of MongoDB collections
5. flask-wtf for forms
6. A common ancestor template (header.html) to inherit, which provides Bootstrap (and a navbar) and jQuery
7. A basic, logical separation of the application inspired by the MVC software pattern.

Use

Be sure to edit the elemental/config/config.py file to settings that suit your environment. Primarily, be sure to change the MONGO_SETTINGS['host'] setting in config.py.

The Flask development server can be invoked from a Python environment that has installed the requirements in requirements.txt.

$ python runapp.py

I wrote Elemental with the intent of running derivative apps with Gunicorn in production.

Dependencies:

• flask-login
• flask-admin
• flask-debugtoolbar
• flask-mongoengine
• flask-bcrypt
• flask-wtf

License

Apache 2.0