Minimial Flask app for frontend guys

Readme.rst

How to run this

First time

1. Make a virtualenv: virtualenv env
2. Activate the virtualenv: source env/bin/activate
3. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run the server: python app.py
5. Open website in browser at http://localhost:5000/

After initial setup

1. Run the server: env/bin/python app.py
2. Open website in browser at http://localhost:5000/

To render a template in templates/hello/world.html open http://localhost:5000/hello/world.html

app.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from flask import Flask, render_template

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
@app.route('/<path:path>')
def index(path='index.html'):
    return render_template(path)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import argparse
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('--public', action='store_true')
    parser.add_argument('--no-debug', dest='debug', action='store_false')
    parser.add_argument('--port', default=5000, type=int)
    args = parser.parse_args()
    host = '0.0.0.0' if args.public else '127.0.0.1'
    app.run(debug=args.debug, host=host, port=args.port)

requirements.txt

Flask==0.9
Jinja2==2.6
Werkzeug==0.8.3
argparse==1.2.1
wsgiref==0.1.2