Installation

After cloning

[sudo] pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv

Activate Environment

# Linux/UNIX or Windows git-bash-cli
source venv/bin/activate # or . venv/bin/activate

# Windows cmd
venv/Scripts/activate

# Windows powershell solution 1
Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned 
./venv/Scripts/activate # Answer yes to trust the signer

# Windows powershell solution 2 (if solution 1 fails)
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
./venv/Scripts/activate # Answer yes to trust the signer

Install Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the project WITHOUT heroku-cli

Windows users should use set instead of export, example: set FLASK_APP=app.py

export FLASK_APP=app.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1 #Enables reload :)
flask run

Running the project WITH heroku-cli

Remember you should have installed heroku-cli to simulate a heroku server. To have the full experience of a heroku instance on your local machine it is recommended to use a linux/UNIX machine with gunicorn. Create a .env file and add your environment variables as you need

FLASK_APP=app.py
FLASK_DEBUG=1

• heroku local for unix/linux users
• heroku local -f Procfile.windows for windows users