juli1/flask-chat repository overview

⁠Flask Chat

A simple chat in flask. More a message board that looks like in the 80s than a full-featured chat with videos and unicorn.

Information about how to deploy using Docker on a raspberry pi on this blog post⁠.

⁠Why?

I wanted to have a simple chat with my friends and not use snapshot, hangouts or any other popular solutions that requires to be logged on a system you do not control.

⁠What?

This is a simple application written in Python/Flask. It handles a single chat window. Users have to authenticate.

⁠Requirements

• Single chat window
• Several users
• Admin functions to add/change users
• No plain password stored

⁠and for later ...

This could be integrated as well

• GIFs search
• Support to check HTML safety

⁠How to use it?

git clone https://github.com/juli1/flask-chat.git
cd flask-chat
# Replace the following line with virtualenv if necessary
python3.X -m venv venv # Replace X with your version of python
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
./db_create.py
./run-debug.py

And then, open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:5000/⁠

Start with the user admin, password admin.

⁠How to run tests?

python -m unittest discover tests

⁠Dockerization

The docker image is available on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/juli1/flask-chat/⁠

Build the docker image

docker build -t flask-chat:latest .

Run the docker image

docker run -d -p 10000:5050 flask-chat

And then, open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:10000/⁠

⁠Resources

• The Flask Website⁠
• Dockerfile reference⁠
• Docker container for Flask⁠
• The Amazing Flask Tutorial⁠