Serverless Flask WebApp with S3(for static content like images,css,js etc).

• Install Python3.6

• Git clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/vabhishek-me/serverless-flask-webapp-with-s3.git;
cd serverless-flask-webapp-with-s3;

• Install virtualenv on your system to create a virtual environment.

  pip3 install virtualenv;

• Create a virtualenv named flaskenv and activate it.

  virtualenv -p python3.6 flaskenv;
  source flaskenv/bin/activate;

• Install all the dependencies.

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• To run the project locally:

  python app.local.py
  
  # Open localhost:5000

.
├── static              # Contains static files like images,css,js,videos etc. - will be pushed to s3 eventually
├── template            # Contains all the templates - use `{{ url_for('static', filename='path/to/file') }}` for s3 links to work
├── app.py              # Contains all the routing stuffs
├── app.local.py        # To run project locally before deployment
├── upload-to-s3.py     # Python script to upload content from static folder to s3 bucket - run it before deployment
├── requirements.txt    # Python packages list - to recreate when new packages are installed, do "pip freeze > requirements.txt"

1. Add all your api-endpoints, static files and templates.

2. Run upload-to-s3.py script to upload all your static files to s3.

  python3 upload-to-s3.py

1. Install ZAPPA. If you ran pip install -r requirements.txt before, you should have zappa installed. Otherwise, install using pip install zappa

2. Run zappa init and provide the values as required for the configuration.

3. Once configured, you'll see a zappa_settings.json file.

4. Now, run zappa deploy to deploy your website. After successful deployment, You'll get an endpoint which you can use to visit your website.

Yayyy! Your site is live.