Cookiecutter skeleton for Flask application

Requirements

• python (Tested on 3.6.6 . For 2.x.x, requirements and some 'import' could be changed)
• cookiecutter (pip install cookiecutter)

Usage

Method 1 using remote url

> cookiecutter https://github.com/rohitchormale/cookiecutter-flask 
project_slug [myproject]: /opt/fooproject (Enter new project name with proper path. If empty 'myproject' will be used with current directory)
author[]: John Smith( Enter author name. If empty, empty string will be used)
> cd <project-path>
> flask run

Method 2 from source

> git clone https://github.com/rohitchormale/cookiecutter-flask 
> cookiecutter <absolute-path-to-cloned-repo>
project_slug [myproject]: /opt/fooproject (Enter new project name with proper path. If empty 'myproject' will be used with current directory)
author[]: John Smith( Enter author name. If empty, empty string will be used)
> cd <project-path>
> flask run

Skeleton Structure

 myproject
 ├── myapp
 │   ├── __init__.py
 │   ├── extensions.py
 │   │
 │   ├── helpers
 │   │   ├── __init__.py
 │   │   ├── controllers.py
 │   │   ├── models.py
 │   │   └── commands.py
 │   │
 │   ├── auth
 │   │   ├── __init__.py
 │   │   ├── routes.py
 │   │   ├── controllers.py
 │   │   ├── models.py
 │   │   ├── forms.py
 │   │   └── commands.py
 │   │
 │   └── ui
 │       ├── static
 │       │   ├── css
 │       │   │   └── styles.css
 │       │   └── js
 │       │       └── custom.js
 │       │
 │       └── templates
 │           ├── 404.html
 │           ├── 500.html
 │           └── base.html
 │
 ├── tests
 │   ├── __init__.py
 │   ├── conftest.py
 │   │   
 │   └── auth
 │       ├── __init__.py
 │       └── test_controllers.py
 │
 ├── config.py
 ├── instance
 │   └── config.py
 ├── wsgi.py
 │
 ├── requirements.txt
 └── README.md 

Bootstrapping

• Once app is created, do NOT forget to change SECRET_KEY from instance/config.py

References

• Flask
• Cookiecutter