Reddit API - Flask Template

Introduction

In this workshop, you will learn how to set up a Reddit application and integrate it with your web app using Flask and the jinja2 templating engine.

Prerequisites

• Install Python
• Install Pip
• Clone this repository to your Desktop
• Navigate to your repository in command line
• Install Praw (Python Reddit Wrapper) and Flask by running pip install -r requirements.txt inside the repository directory
• Create an account on Reddit (if you do not have one already): https://www.reddit.com/
• Optional: review Flask intro slides below for a better idea of Flask

Reference Materials

• Finished Repository: https://github.com/raopg/learn-reddit-flask-completed
• Reddit and Flask Slides: http://bit.ly/zh18redditslides
• Flask Intro Slides (another workshop): http://bit.ly/hackuciflask
• Reddit API Documentation: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/
• Flask Documentation: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/
• Python Documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/
• JS Documentation: https://www.w3schools.com/js/
• CSS Documentation: https://www.w3schools.com/css/
• HTML Documentation: https://www.w3schools.com/html/