Credits to miguelgrinberg & peterspython

Also read more about the implementation here or here

Set up & Installation.

Windows

git clone https://github.com/Dev-Elie/Threaded-Replies-using-Flask-SQLAlchemy-MySQL.git
cd Threaded-Replies-using-Flask-SQLAlchemy-MySQL
py -3 -m venv venv

macOS/Linux

git clone https://github.com/Dev-Elie/Threaded-Replies-using-Flask-SQLAlchemy-MySQL.git
cd Threaded-Replies-using-Flask-SQLAlchemy-MySQL
python3 -m venv venv

Windows

venv\Scripts\activate

macOS/Linux

. venv/bin/activate or source venv/bin/activate

Applies for windows/macOS/Linux

pip install -r requirements.txt

Applies for windows/macOS/Linux
NB First create a MySQL database then execute then
create a .env file and paste the following lines of code;

SECRET_KEY = 'secret-key'
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = "mysql+mysqlconnector://mysql-username:mysql-db-pass@localhost/db-name"
SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS = True

Once done execute

python manage.py

For linux and macOS Make the run file executable by running the code

chmod 777 run

Then start the application by executing the run file

./run

On windows

set FLASK_APP=main
flask run