MICROBLOG

Microblog is a simple microblogging web application with minimalistic user interface. The sole purpose of this project is to learn and get familiar with flask.

Getting Started

These instructions will give you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Requirements for the software and other tools to build, test and push

• Git
• Docker

Installing

First of all clone this repo locally using git.

git clone https://github.com/Im-gkira/Microblog.git

Ensure Docker is installed and running in your local system.-

docker version

Go to the root folder of the application and build docker container image using-

docker build -t microblog:latest .

Now we can start a docker container using docker run-

docker run --name microblog -d -p 8000:5000 --rm microblog:latest

Running the tests

To run the unit tests designed to check the database queries. Run-

python tests.py

Acknowledgments

• Followed The Flask Mega-Tutorial by Miguel Grinberg