autogenerate boilerplate code for a flask app

• Generate a basic Flask app with:

  • app.py
  • config.py
  • static folder
  • templates folder
  • README.md
  • Makefile
  • setup.py
  • requirements.txt
  • .gitignore

  and optional extras including:

  • Test suite(tox, pytest)
  • Docker
  • Heroku
  • Job Scheduler
  • Flask-Login
  • Flask-Admin
  • Flask-WTF
  • Vue.js(CDN version)
  • jQuery
  • Sass
  • Bootstrap
  • SQLite(Flask-SQLAlchemy)
  • MongoDB(Flask-PyMongo)

• Automatically install pip dependencies in a venv

• Makefile with useful commands(starting server, lint code, test code)

1. pip install new-flask-app to install the create-flask-app console script
2. run create-flask-app
3. after selecting extras, cd into the new directory and make start to start flask server
4. done!

OR

For development:

1. make install
2. source .env/bin/activate
3. create-flask-app or python create_flask_app.py