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Warbler is a full stack Twitter clone built with a Flask backend, PostgreSQL database and SQLAlchemy ORM. The frontend uses Jinja for HTML templating, jQuery and Axios for certain features.

Note: Please wait a few seconds for app to load. Heroku's dyno is often sleeping if no requests have been made in a while.

App Highlights

• New users can log in / sign up
• Logged in users can edit their user profile
• Logged in users can follow and unfollow other users
• Logged in users can write messages
• Logged in users can like and unlike other users' messages
• Logged in users can explore and search for other users
• Logged in users can delete their profile

Upcoming features / Future Plans for Implementation

• Users can delete their own messages
• Users can change their password

Installation and Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. cd warbler
3. Set up the virtual environment

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

4. Create database

• createdb warbler
• createdb warbler-test
• python3 seed.py

5. Run the server

• flask run

Running Tests

• To run all tests: python3 -m unittest
• To run specific test file: python3 -m unittest test_FILENAME.py

Technologies Used

1. Flask - Backend framework
2. Flask-WTForms - Integrates Flask with WTForms library, includes validations and CSRF protection
3. PostgreSQL database
4. SQLAlchemy - Object Relational Mapper (ORM) for interacting with database
5. Jinja - HTML Templating for views
6. Axios - Promise-based HTTP client for asynchronous requests

Authors

My partner for the project was @d-lee84