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Making Websites with Flask/Creating a web app

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Now that you have learned the basics of Flask website development, it is time for the final project. We will be making a web application in which someone can someone can upload their name, age and favourite food, and every other user can view this information.

Creating the homepage

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We will now create the homepage for the website so that when someone connects, they will know what this is.

Here is the code:

from flask import *
app = Flask(__name__)
#This creates the application object for the site
@app.route('/')
def home():
    #You can modify this HTML how you see fit
    return """
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Learn about other users</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <h1>Welcome to my Web App!</h1>
    <a href="/signup">Click here to create a account!</a>
    <p style="font-family: sans-serif;">This is a cool website to learn about fellow users.</p>
    </body>
    </html>
    """
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(debug=True)

As you can see, it links to a sign up page, that does not exist yet. We will now address this issue.

Making the sign up page

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For someone to use your website, they must create an account. But first, we must create a list of all accounts. We will structure it like this: accounts = [{"name": "John Doe", "age": 20, "food": "pizza"}]. In the next chapter we will code this page, and more.

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