Flask-Session Tutorial

Tutorial: https://hackersandslackers.com/managing-user-session-variables-with-flask-sessions-and-redis/

Getting Started

Get set up locally in two steps:

Environment Variables

Replace the values in .env.example with your values and rename this file to .env:

• FLASK_APP: Entry point of your application; should be wsgi.py.
• FLASK_ENV: The environment in which to run your application; either development or production.
• SECRET_KEY: Randomly generated string of characters used to encrypt your app's data.
• SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI: Connection URI of a SQL database.
• SESSION_REDIS: Connection URI of a Redis instance.
• LESS_BIN (optional for static assets): Path to your local LESS installation via which lessc.
• ASSETS_DEBUG (optional): Debug asset creation and bundling in development.
• LESS_RUN_IN_DEBUG (optional): Debug LESS while in development.
• COMPRESSOR_DEBUG (optional): Debug asset compression while in development.

Remember never to commit secrets saved in .env files to Github.

Installation

Get up and running with make deploy:

$ git clone https://github.com/hackersandslackers/flask-session-tutorial.git
$ cd flask-session-tutorial
$ make deploy

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