Connect your Flask app to a database using Flask-SQLAlchemy.

• Tutorial: https://hackersandslackers.com/manage-database-models-with-flask-sqlalchemy/

• Demo: https://flasksqlalchemy.hackersandslackers.app

Get set up locally in two steps:

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

• FLASK_APP: Entry point of your application; should be wsgi.py.
• FLASK_ENV: The environment in which to run your application; either development or production.
• SECRET_KEY: Randomly generated string of characters used to encrypt your app's data.
• SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI: SQLAlchemy connection URI to a SQL database.

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

Get up and running with make deploy:

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

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