Project 5: Item Catalog

Project Overview

In this project, I was asked to develop an item catalog with CRUD functionality. It was also required to add oauth to authenticate users, and give them appropriate permissions to create, edit and delete items and categories in the database.

Installation

• Run on local machine
  • Download the zipped folder
  • Extracts its contents to your computer
  • Install Git
  • Install Vagrant
  • Install VirtualBox
  • Clone the fsnd-project4 repository
    • From the terminal, run git clone PATH_TO_REPO destination_folder_name
  • Launch the Vagrant VM
    • Open git
    • Navigate using the cd command to the destination folder.
    • Run vagrant up to start the VM. (It may take a while on the first run)
    • Run vagrant ssh to access the VM.
  • Run the code
    • Navigate to the catalog folder using the cd /vagrant/catalog.
    • Run python lotsofitems.py to get a fresh copy of the database.
    • Run python catalogProject.py to run the project.
    • You can then view the project in your web browser of choice at http://localhost:5000/
    • When done, run logout to logout and vagrant halt to stop the VM.