PulsarNews

Fork from flask_hackernews is a minimalistic hackernews clone.

It uses:

• flask as a web framework.
• flask-sqlalchemy as an ORM.
• SQLite as a database.
• heroku for a simple deployment.
• Other less known libraries listed inrequirements.txt

Contents

• Features
• Set up
• Deployment
• About

Features

• user authentication
• upvoting on comments and posts
• karma
• user profiles
• post ranking algorithms based on the 'official' one
• comment replies, threading and more!

Set up Instructions

Follow these instructions if you wish to run this project locally

• clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/gixita/pulsarnews

• for server installation

$ 

• create a virtual environment with the latest python version
• install requirements

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

• create a .env file in the home directory based on the file .env

• Modify the variable is_subdomain_enable = True to is_subdomain_enable = False in __init__.py in the app folder, that will deactivate the management of subdomain and enable to use localhost.

• initiate your database

(venv) $ flask db init
(venv) $ flask db migrate -m "first init"
(venv) $ flask db upgrade

• 🎉Run!!🎉

(venv) $ flask run

• visit http://localhost:5000 to check it out.

Deployment

Follow these instructions to deploy your to the 🌎

• Heroku: follow this guide.
• Docker: follow this guide.
• Linux: follow this guide.

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