Flaskgram

A Instagram Blog application clone made using flask and sqlite database

Deployed Link Valid upto 15th april 2023

FlaskGram

Installation instruction

1. run command

pip install -r "requirements.txt"

2. Run

flask --app main --debug run to run the flask app

Details:

Author

Kshitij Roodkee

I am a web enthusiast and open source contirubutor who is excited to learn coding.

Description

This project gives us hand on experience on the working of flask and databases to create a web app the keypoints to learn was using queries , passing data in flask .

Technologies used

1. Jinja2 : It is a tempelating engine which gives us power to use python in html
2. WTForms : it is used to validate and build forms that are more secure and easy to use.
3. Werkzeug : It is used to enhance login security and save the user password as hashes
4. SQLAlchemy : It is used to work with queries on a sqlite database
5. flask_ckeditor : To give a rich editing experience while writing the blog
6. Flask_login : It is used to implement login and logout feature.
7. Flask : It is a web framework .

DB Schema Design

Architecture and Features

The project architecture could be divided into

1. Templates : It contains all the views/html files
2. Static Folder : It contains Css and images folder ( user profile picture)
3. Routes : Their are mainly
   1. “/posts” route: which shows all the post available in the database
   2. “/feed/” route which shows specific post depending upon if user follows that author or not
   3. “/add/posts” route: for adding blog post
   4. “/user/” route: shows user profile and stats
   5. “/follower/” route: shows user followers list
   6. “/following/” route : shows user following list
   7. “/user/dashboard” route: shows user setting can be used to update user profile setting here
   8. “/posts/edit/” route: for editing posts
   9. “/posts/delete/ route: for removing posts
4. Classes :Their are three classes or model implemented
   1. Posts : to maintain Posts
   2. Users : to maintain Users
   3. LikePost : to maintain likes on the post
5. Forms : The forms are main feature to get the user input: The different forms implemented are:
   1. LoginForm : To be used for login
   2. SearchForm : To implement Search Functionality
   3. FollowForm: To submit follow request

Features Implemented :

1. Users Customised Feed : A user is able to create his/her own feed by determining whom to follow . This feature is implemented using by creating a relationship between users Many to Many and querying on this relationship.
2. Likes : A user can determine the credibility of a post bhy seeing the likes . This feature is implemented by creating a db model that keeps in count the no. of likes on that post
3. Archive : A user can archive a post or unarchive a post depending upon his/her needs. This feature is implemented using a check of 0 and 1 count associated with the post where 1 means archived and 0 means unarchived.
4. Login and Logout: Access to pages are maintained . A user can only see global posts if he/she is not logged in . Rest all pages need to be logged in . It is implemented using flask_login module.
5. Search : A user is able to search another user and also able to search post content. This is implemented using simple query on db
6. Follow and Unfollow: A user is able to follow unfollow another user . This is implemented using function call and a relationship between users .