voting-app-python

The application is a basic voting application written in python with Flask as the web framework. SQLite is used as the database which will be stored as a file in project structure.

• Jinja2 as template engine.
• Flask-SQLAlchemy as ORM tool.
• Flask-Admin to generate admin page.
• Flask-BasicAuth for authentication on admin page only which is separate from normal user login.
• Flask-WTF for generating forms.
• Werkzeug utility library for password hashing.

Routes:-

Method	Path	Description
GET	/ or /home	Home Page
GET	/about	About Page
GET, POST	/register	User Registration
GET, POST	/login	User Login
GET, POST	/dashboard	Voting Dashboard
POST	/logout	User Logout

Setting Up:-

Make sure you have Python 3+, virtualenv and pip installed on your system.

Setup the virtual environment

virtualenv voting_env --python=python3

Install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the application

python app.py

The application can now be accessed at http://localhost:5000