iAffirm

iAffirm is to help encourage and spread positivity with the use of affirmative words. These affirmations are human written as users can enter their daily affirmations to the api, through a landing page. The affirmations are spread through tweets by the @iAffirmbot every 5 minutes at random.

Example

Tech Stack

Server: Python, Flask

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

FLASK_APP

FLASK_ENV

SECRET_KEY

DATABASE_URL (for production environment)

DEV_DATABASE_URL (for development environment)

TEST_DATABASE_URL (for testing environment)

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/LuluNwenyi/iAffirm.git

Go to the project directory

  cd my-project

Create virtual environment

  # FOR MACOS/LINUX
  python3 -m venv venv

  # FOR WINDOWS
  py -m venv env

Activate virtual environment

  # FOR MACOS/LINUX
  source venv/bin/activate

  # FOR WINDOWS
  .\env\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Set environment variables

  # FOR MACOS/LINUX
  export FLASK_APP=app.py
  export FLASK_ENV=development
  export DEV_DATABASE_URL='sqlite:///dev.db'
  export SECRET_KEY='mysecretkey'

  # FOR WINDOWS
  set FLASK_APP=app.py
  set FLASK_ENV=development
  set DEV_DATABASE_URL='sqlite:///dev.db'
  set SECRET_KEY='mysecretkey'

Initiate the database

  flask db init

Migrate the database changes

  flask db migrate -m "commit message here"

Push the database changes

  flask db upgrade

Start the server

  flask run

Documentation

Documentation

Authors

• @lulunwenyi

Feedback

For feedback or ideas/contributions, email dev@lulunwenyi.com.

If you'd like to support this project, feel free to buymeacoffee.