Simplified clone of event pages with database integration as infrastructure for mentors/hosts to preview & submit their event sites.
Deployed app can be accessed at http://tpeventpageform.org/
This is a "dynamic" app that communicates with the database live (unlike analytics-dash-with-events, which is static and has data updated periodically). App updates will automatically re-deploy to Elastic Beanstalk on every push to the main branch via the Github actions workflow in .github/workflows/main.yml. Relevant updates to dependencies (like tech_team_database) will require manual re-run of the deploy workflow to update the deployed version, since the workflow checks out the latest version for deployment. Any files in the repository that should not be deployed should be added to .ebignore.
Because Elastic Beanstalk expects the flask app to be named application, set the FLASK_APP environment variable to application.py before running Flask locally. To run in debug mode locally, set the environment variable instead of using the parameter in application.run() so that the production app is not in debug mode. For example, on Linux:
$ setenv FLASK_DEBUG=1
$ setenv FLASK_APP=application.py
$ flask run
All installation dependencies required in the deployed app must be included in requirements.txt. If you are using a virtual environment, you can install the relevant requirements locally from requirements.txt with pip3 install -r requirements.txt or output the installed packages in your virtual environment into requirements.txt with pip3 freeze > requirements.txt. You will also need a local copy of tech_team_database.
Include Jinja html templates in the templates subdirectory, and all other static files (images, attachments, CSS files, JS files, etc.) that are part of the app in static. The top level images directory is only for images used in this README. When referencing other files from a template, do not use the relative path, as this may cause problems for shared template bases if templates are reorganized into different subfolders. Instead, use url_for. For example, use
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='css/form.css') }}">
instead of
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../static/css/form.css') }}">