cookiecutter-flask

A Flask template for cookiecutter.

Use it now

$ pip install cookiecutter
$ cookiecutter https://github.com/sloria/cookiecutter-flask.git

You will be asked about your basic info (name, project name, app name, etc.). This info will be used in your new project.

Features

• Bootstrap 4 and Font Awesome 4 with starter templates
• Flask-SQLAlchemy with basic User model
• Easy database migrations with Flask-Migrate
• Configuration in environment variables, as per The Twelve-Factor App
• Flask-WTForms with login and registration forms
• Flask-Login for authentication
• Flask-Bcrypt for password hashing
• Procfile for deploying to a PaaS (e.g. Heroku)
• pytest and Factory-Boy for testing (example tests included)
• Flask's Click CLI configured with simple commands
• CSS and JS minification using webpack
• npm support for frontend package management
• Caching using Flask-Cache
• Useful debug toolbar
• Utilizes best practices: Blueprints and Application Factory patterns

Screenshots

Inspiration

• Building Websites in Python with Flask
• Getting Bigger with Flask
• Structuring Flask Apps
• Flask-Foundation by @JackStouffer
• flask-bones by @cburmeister
• flask-basic-registration by @mjhea0
• Flask Official Documentation

License

BSD licensed.

Changelog

18.0.0 (09/09/2018)

• Use CalVer (YY.MINOR.MICRO).
• Upgrade to Bootstrap 4. Thanks @adawalli and @Hiyorimi.
• Use environment variables for configuration.
• Add support for Pipenv.
• Upgrade Python and Node dependencies.

0.13.0 (06/25/2017)

• Use webpack for building front-end assets. Front-end dependencies are installed with NPM. Remove Flask-Assets and bower.json. Thanks @wroberts.

0.12.0 (11/06/2016)

• Update Python dependencies.

0.11.1 (11/06/2016)

• Correctly pass first parameter to Flask according to the 0.11 docs. Thanks @aliavni.
• Remove setuptools and wheel as dependencies to fix deployment on Heroku. Thanks @Cabalist.
• Make User.password a Binary field for compatibility with new versions of bcrypt. Thanks again @Cabalist.

0.11.0 (09/10/2016)

• Use the FLASK_DEBUG system environment variable, instead of MYFLASKAPP_ENV, to control different configs for development and production environments

0.10.1 (08/28/2016)

• Fix invoke test command.

0.10.0 (08/28/2016)

• Update to Flask 0.11.
• Use Click instead of Flask-Script for CLI commands.

0.9.0 (03/06/2016)

• Update stale requirements.
• Add CSRF protection.
• Run lint commmand on Travis builds.
• Test against Python 3.5.

0.8.0 (11/09/2015)

• Update stale requirements.
• Add lint, clean, and urls management commands.
• Add isort.

Thanks @andreoliw for these contributions.

0.7.0 (04/14/2015)

• Update extension import style to flask* as per mitsuhiko/flask#1135
• Update stale requirements (Werkzeug, Flask-WTF, WTForms, Flask-Bcrypt, Flask-DebugToolbar, Flask-Migrate, Bootstrap, jQuery). Thanks @bsmithgall for notifying me of the critical patch to Flask-Migrate.

0.6.0 (12/01/2014)

• Test the cookiecutter on Travis. Thanks @joshfriend.
• Update stale requirements (Flask-WTF, Flask-Migrate, Flask-DebugToolbar)

0.5.0 (09/29/2014)

• Fix .travis.yml.
• Update stale requirements (Flask-WTF, WTForms, Flask-SQLAlchemy, jquery, Bootstrap)

0.4.3 (07/27/2014)

• Add BaseFactory class.
• Add compat.py module.
• Tests pass on Python 3.

0.4.2 (07/27/2014)

• Update factories to factory-boy >= 2.4.0 syntax.
• Update stale requirements.

0.4.1 (06/07/2014)

• Update stale requirements (Werkzeug 0.9.6, WTForms 2.0)
• Fix unmatched div tag in home.html (thanks @level09 )

0.4.0 (04/19/2014)

• Add ReferenceCol for less verbose foreign key columns.
• Add SurrogatePK mixin for adding integer primary key to a model.
• Add base Model class that has CRUD convenience methods.
• Fix setting BCrypt encryption complexity. Tests are much faster.
• Add Role model to show ReferenceCol usage.
• Switch to pytest.
• Upgrade all out-of-date requirements.
• More test examples.
• Remove "year" from cookiecutter.json (just change LICENSE if necessary).

0.3.2 (02/26/2014)

• Fix static assets.

0.3.1 (02/20/2014)

• Update default year in cookiecutter.json. Thanks @Omeryl
• Correct testing of redirects in webtests. Thanks @Widdershin
• Fix POST action in nav form. Thanks @Widdershin.
• Update Bootstrap (3.1.1) and jQuery (2.1.0)
• Optional support for bower.
• Minified assets aren't used in dev environment.

0.3.0 (12/08/2013)

• More modular organization: each blueprint contains its own view, models, and forms in a directory. There is still a single directory for templates and static assets.
• Use Flask-Bcrypt for password hashing.
• Flask-Login for authentication.
• Simple test setup. Just create a subclass of DbTestCase.
• Flask-Testing support.
• Use Factory-Boy for test factories.
• Use WebTest for functional testing.
• Add Flask-Debugtoolbar.
• Migrations using Flask-Migrate.
• Caching using Flask-Cache.
• Add error page templates (404, 401, 500)
• Add Font Awesome 4.0.3 for icons.

0.2.0 (09/21/2013)

• Add manage.py script
• Add Flask-Assets for CSS and JS bundling+minification
• Use different configs for development and production environments, controlled by the MYFLASKAPP_ENV system environment variable
• Use Blueprints and application factory pattern. The simple branch does not use these.

0.1.0 (08/20/2013)

• First iteration
• Bootstrap 3 final
• Working User model and registration