• Clone github repository into a newly created folder: $ git clone https://github.com/emunsing/flaskblockchain.git
• Create virtual environment by running $ virtualenv env
• Set environment variables by running $ source .env
• Install required Python packages with `$ pip install -r requirements.txt
• Associate heroku repository by running$ git remote add heroku [email protected]:flaskblockchain.git
• Run a local server with $ python flaskblockchain.py
• Go to http://localhost:5000 and see results!

Needed for Flask app:

• flaskblockchain.py: Needs to run the app, and provide handlers for http requests
• Config.py: Defines environment variables for different execution environments, to turn on and off different functionalities or logging levels. Not strictly required, but useful for having both development and deployment environments
• .env: Source this to set environment variables
• requiremens.txt: Generated by pip freeze > requirements.txt

Required for Heroku:

• runtime.txt: Specify the Python runtime environment
• Procfile: Required by Heroku to indicate the type of dyno to spin up, and what to run

When creating a new app...

• In addition to installing Flask and other requirements, be sure to install

This assumes that you're using the command line:

• Create app with $ heroku create myawesomeapp where your actual app name replaces myawesomeapp
• Set environment with $ heroku config:set APP_SETTINGS=config.HerokuConfig
• Set buildpack with $heroku buildpacks:set heroku/python
• Set dyno scale with $ heroku ps:scale web=1