Database driven web application framework in Flask
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# Cascading, Highly Irrelevant, Lost Llamas
Or, just chill.
(Oh, that makes little sense. Let me try to be more descriptive.)
## Database driven web application framework in Flask
This involves creating custom SQL queries to pull your data from your database into your jinja2 HTML templates for your website. Chill creates a static version of the website or can run as a Flask app. Their are a few tables that are specific to Chill in order to handle page routes and what SQL query should be used and such.
## Quickstart
Run the chill init script in an empty directory and it will create a minimal starting point for using Chill. The site.cfg created will have comments on each configuration value. The chill run –config site.cfg will run the app in the foreground at the ‘http://localhost:5000/’ url. Notice that the script also creates a sqlite database in that directory. This database is what the script uses to display the pages in a site.
Review the docs for more. Some helpful guides and such are in the docs/ folder. They might even make some sense, but that is not a guarantee. You can also read through the tests.py file within the chill package.
## Installing
This latest version is not published so I recomend installing with pip in editable mode. I install it by pip install -e . after cloning the repository. This will create a script called chill. Type chill –help for help on using it. It will need a config file and such. I recommend creating an empty directory and running chill init within it. That will create a site.cfg config file and the bare minimum to show a homepage. Run the chill run –config site.cfg and visit http://localhost:5000 with your browser.
## Static site generator
The command chill freeze –config site.cfg will go through all the urls and creates a static version of each page. It places all the necessary files in a folder which can then simply be uploaded to a static web server or whatever. This is basically a wrapper around the Frozen-Flask python package. Which is probably the reasoning behind the name ‘chill’.
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