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Personal Blog

Overview

This is a demo personal blog. I used it to learn how to create a simple flask website from scratch, where I took a note all the projects I was learning by building. It served as a starting point for my learning journey. I now have my official personal website.

Design

Here is the full design of the blog. I used Figma for prototyping and regular reference during its development.

Features

  • Anonymous user can post comments (even multiple times using the same credentials)
  • Realtime Date and Time
  • Payment Integration
  • Live Language Translation
  • Consultation Scheduling
  • Database Management
  • Markdown Form Editing
  • Link Popups
  • Comment Moderation
  • Two-factor authentication for Admin

Tools Used

  • Calendly for Scheduling
  • Microsoft Language Translator
  • Flask Framework
  • Twitter Bootstrap for Cross-browser Responsiveness
  • Python3 for Programming
  • SQLite for Local Development
  • Stripe For Payment
  • Moment JS for Realtime Date and Time
  • Gravatar for User Comments
  • Google reCaptcha for Extra Form Security
  • JQuery for Mobile Responsiveness
  • Ngrok for Localhost Testing
  • Flask PageDown for form editing
  • Twilio Verify

Application Design

Contributors:

GitHub Contributors

Deployed Application

Testing

To test the project out, you can clone this repo to your local machine:

$ git clone git@github.com:GitauHarrison/my-blog.git

Create and activate your virtual environment before running it:

$ workon gitauharrison-portfolio # I am using a virtualenv wrapper

Install all used dependancies:

(gitauharrison-portfolio)$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run the application:

$ flask run

Once your application is running, you can access your localhost on http://127.0.0.1:5000/. Additionally, if you look carefully in your terminal, you will see * Tunnel URL: NgrokTunnel: "http://4209c9af6d43.ngrok.io" -> "http://localhost:5000"

The HTTP value may be different from the one shown here because I am using the free tier package of ngrok. Paste the link http://4209c9af6d43.ngrok.io on another device, say your mobile phone, to test the application while it is on localhost.

Build Your Own Blog

A personal blog side project sounds like a great idea. If you would like to learn how you can build your own blog from scratch using Python and Flask, something like the one here, look here.

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