Warbler

A twitter clone with a Flask back end

Deployed at: https://warbler-nm.onrender.com/

Features

• User registration/authentication/profile deletion
• Posting, liking, and deleting messages
• Following/unfollowing users
• Chronological feed of followed-users' messages
• 92% test coverage

Setting it up

1. Create a virtual environment and install requirements:

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

2. Set up the database (PostgreSQL):

$ psql
=# CREATE DATABASE warbler;
(ctrl+D)
$ python3 seed.py

3. Add a .env file with:

SECRET_KEY=(any secret key you want)
DATABASE_URL=postgresql:///warbler

4. Run the server:

$ flask run -p 5001

5. View at localhost:5001

Tech

• Vanilla JS, Axios, Flask, SQLAlchemy, WTForms, bcrypt

// TODO

• Fix background image formatting
• Shift to responsive, SPA front-end framework
• Write more tests