Application Structure

Application Structure

• api/views/ - Holds files that define your endpoints
• api/models/ - Holds files that defines your database schema
• api/__init__.py - What is initially ran when you start your application
• api/utils.py - utility functions and classes - explained here
• api/core.py - includes core functionality including error handlers and logger
• api/wsgi.py - app reference for gunicorn
• tests/ - Folder holding tests

Others

• config.py - Provides Configuration for the application. There are two configurations: one for development and one for production using Heroku.
• manage.py - Command line interface that allows you to perform common functions with a command
• requirements.txt - A list of python package dependencies the application requires
• runtime.txt & Procfile - configuration for Heroku
• Dockerfile - instructions for Docker to build the Flask app
• docker-compose.yml - config to setup this Flask app and a Database
• migrations/ - Holds migration files – doesn't exist until you python manage.py db init if you decide to not use docker