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Things you'll have to do once to initialize the project
Do the following in order:
Create an .env file
cp env.example .env
Then edit the .env file to enter a flask secret key, your omdb key and an administrator password for the site.
Initialize the environment
There is a configure.sh file:
sh configure.sh
You can also initialize the environment yourself:
Create a virtual environment
Create an env folder:
python -m venv env
To enter the (env) environment:
source env/bin/activate
The keyword (env) should appear in the beginning of the prompt. If you want to quit the virtual environment, do deactivate.
If you are not in the virtual environment (the (env) keyword does not appear in the prompt), do source env/bin/activate again to go back to the environment.
Install the required python packages
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Initialize the database
Warning! This will erase the database. Pro-tip: this will erase the database.
python -m flask --app kinolist init-db
Things to do whenever you want to launch the project locally
Enter the local environment
source env/bin/activate
The keyword (env) should appear in the beginning of the prompt. If you want to quit the virtual environment, do deactivate.
If you are not in the virtual environment (the (env) keyword does not appear in the prompt), do source env/bin/activate again to go back to the environment.
Launch the Flask server
python -m flask --app kinolist run --port 8000 --debug
You can access the site at the adress localhost:8000 on your web browser. Do Ctrl+C to stop the server.
Remarks
For some reasons, I need a symbolic link from posters/ to kinolist/posters/, I guess it is because python keeps changing the base directory, so the fix I have found is to have two posters folders which are actually the same.