werkzeug_movie_app

Overview

This project demonstrates how to use Werkzeug (key module of Flask) to build a web application.

The application stores your favorite movies in a Redis in-memory data store:

Pull down the source code from this GitLab repository:

git clone [email protected]:patkennedy79/werkzeug_movie_app.git

Create a new virtual environment:

$ cd werkzeug_movie_app
$ python3 -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment:

$ source venv/bin/activate

Install the python packages in requirements.txt:

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

In the top-level directory, run the Werkzeug development server to serve the application:

(venv) $ python app.py

Navigate to 'http://localhost:5000' to view the website!

Werkzeug - collection of libraries that can be used to create a WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) web application in Python.
Jinga - templating engine
py-redis - Python interface to Redis data storage

This application is written using Python 3.9.2.

To run all the tests:

(venv) $ pytest -v

To check the code coverage of the tests:

(venv) $ pytest --cov-report term-missing --cov=app