Flask Landing page

A very lightweight landing page with email signup and i18n. It uses Python Flask and sqlite.

This project was originally created for hellobudget.co

Setup

1. Install packages sudo apt install python-pip python-virtualenv python-dev
2. Create a python virtual environment: virtualenv venv
3. Enter virtual environment: . venv/bin/activate
4. Install python packages pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Initialize database: export FLASK_APP=landing.py && flask initdb
6. Run app in debug mode locally using run.sh

Also See here: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.11/installation/#installation Leave virtual environment with $ deactivate

Translate

To initialise, do this:

1. Extract texts: pybabel extract --project landing-page --version 1 -F babel.cfg -o messages.pot .
2. Init German translation (only run this once): pybabel init -i messages.pot -d translations -l de

If texts in source language have been changed or added:

1. pybabel extract --project landing-page --version 1 -F babel.cfg -o messages.pot .
2. Do translations
3. Continue as below

If translations have been changed:

3. Update pybabel update -i messages.pot -d translations
4. Compile: pybabel compile -d translations

Installing a new package via pip

1. Install: pip install peewee
2. Save to requirements pip freeze > requirements.txt

Production Notes for Apache

• Here's a good tutorial.
• Check Apache error log if you see a 500 error
• Make sure the following files and directories are universally writable. They will need be written to by the www-data user
  • signups.db
  • /static/.webassets-cache/
  • /static/gen