Your First Python Web App: Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather Flask Voting App + Heroku

Here are your instructions

1. download the latest version of python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and then install it. Also, make sure to check the ADD TO PATH box when going through the installation wizard.

2. Create an account on Heroku.com

3. MAC USERS ONLY: Install homebrew if you don't have it already with sudo /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

4. MAC USERS ONLY: Open up your terminal with cmd + space then type in terminal and then Install the heroku CLI client with brew install heroku and press enter in the terminal

5. WINDOWS USERS ONLY: To install Heroku CLI Client on windows just go to https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli#windows and click the 64-bit or 32-bit link to download and install

6. WINDOWS USERS ONLY: Open your command line by hitting the windows key and typing in cmd or powershell.

7. Type in git in your command line either on mac or windows and see if you get an error. If you do get an error, go online and type in install git. Then get git either for windows or mac by clicking one of the search results that pop up.

8. At this point, Git and Heroku should be working!

9. Now in your terminal or command prompt, enter the command git clone https://github.com/CleverProgrammer/flask_vote_app

10. Now navigate to the project folder using cd flask_vote_app

11. Enter the command: heroku login and provide your heroku login details. Note: When you type in password the cursor in the command line doesn't move. Don't freak out lol just type in your password for Heroku anyway.

12. Now after you are logged in, use heroku create to create a new heroku application for you.

13. push the code to heroku using git push heroku master

14. Now make your own database where the votes will be stored with heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql

15. Now launch the web app online: heroku ps:scale web=1

16. Here is a little tricky and advanced part but don't worry so much about understanding it yet... Then in your terminal, you’ll need to run migrations for your db schema, to do this simply type heroku run bash on your terminal

17. Once the terminal loads enter the command python init_db.py

18. Now press ctrl + d to exit out of the heroku bash thing.

19. BOOOOOOM! Your site is now on Heroku. Type in heroku open to go check it out online woohoo!!