A skeleton for building Python applications on Google App Engine with Flask, React, Webpack and Babel.

Run Locally

1. Install the App Engine Python SDK. You'll need python 2.7 and pip 1.4 or later installed too.

2. Clone this repo with

   git clone https://github.com/AxoSal/GAE-Flask-React-skeleton.git
   

3. Install Python dependencies in the project's lib directory and install Node dev dependencies. Note: App Engine can only import libraries from inside your project directory.

   cd GAE-Flask-React-skeleton
   pip install -r requirements.txt -t lib
   npm install
   

4. Run

   webpack --watch
   

   from comand line so that you can require your components and compile .jsx files to .js.

5. Run local server from the command line:

   dev_appserver.py .
   

   Visit the application http://localhost:8080

   or

   python main.py
   

   And visit the application on http://localhost:5000

See the development server documentation for options when running dev_appserver.

Deploy

To deploy the application:

1. Use the Admin Console to create a project/app id. (App id and project id are identical)

2. Deploy the application with

   appcfg.py -A <your-project-id> update app.yaml
   

3. Congratulations! Your application is now live at your-app-id.appspot.com

Relational Databases and Datastore

To add persistence to your models, use NDB for scale. Consider CloudSQL if you need a relational database.

Installing Libraries

See the Third party libraries page for libraries that are already included in the SDK. To include SDK libraries, add them in your app.yaml file. Other than libraries included in the SDK, only pure python libraries may be added to an App Engine project.

Feedback

Star this repo if you found it useful. Use the github issue tracker to give feedback on this repo.

Author

Axo Sal