Working with Flask in Windows using Anaconda

  1. Install Anaconda

  2. Run Anaconda Prompt

  3. Create git repository and clone it. Let’s we have repository named microblog.

  4. Change directory:

     cd microblog

  5. Create new virtual environment:

     (base) C:\Users\Slava\microblog>conda create -n venv
 Solving environment: done

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   environment location: C:\Users\Slava\Anaconda3\envs\venv


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  6. Activate virtual environment:

     (base) C:\Users\Slava\microblog>conda activate venv

  7. Install flask. In my Anaconda it’s pre-installed:

     (venv) C:\Users\Slava\microblog>pip install flask
 Requirement already satisfied: flask in c:\users\slava\anaconda3\lib\site-packag
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 Requirement already satisfied: Werkzeug>=0.7 in c:\users\slava\anaconda3\lib\sit
 e-packages (from flask)
 Requirement already satisfied: Jinja2>=2.4 in c:\users\slava\anaconda3\lib\site-
 packages (from flask)
 Requirement already satisfied: itsdangerous>=0.21 in c:\users\slava\anaconda3\li
 b\site-packages (from flask)
 Requirement already satisfied: click>=2.0 in c:\users\slava\anaconda3\lib\site-p
 ackages (from flask)
 Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=0.23 in c:\users\slava\anaconda3\lib\
 site-packages (from Jinja2>=2.4->flask)

  8. Next, we create app directory, create flask files, using “Flask Mega-tutorial”.

  9. To run our application, we set environment variable:

     (venv) C:\Users\Slava\microblog>set FLASK_APP=microblog.py

  10. Run flask and access pages in brouser:

    (venv) C:\Users\Slava\microblog>flask run
 	* Serving Flask app "microblog"
 	* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
127.0.0.1 - - [02/Feb/2018 09:59:52] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [02/Feb/2018 09:59:52] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [02/Feb/2018 09:59:53] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -

To be continued…