Fantasy Premier League

Robust Fantasy Premier League Application built on Flask w/ Python Server & React Frontend.

Jump directly to the deployed application here: fantasy-eleven.

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Installation

1. Fork and clone this repo from Github to your local environment
2. Navigate into your local directory and open the contents in your preferred code editor
3. Run pipenv install to install dependencies
4. Run pipenv shell to create virtual environment
5. From the main project directory, run cd server to enter the server directory

.env set up

6. Create .env file in the server directory with touch .env
7. Add a line for SECRET_KEY=
8. In your terminal, run python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex()) to generate your own key
9. Copy the result into the .env file as the value for the secret key
10. Make sure .env is added to your .gitignore
11. Add a line for DATABASE_URI=
12. Copy the link to the external database you would like to connect. If you are using Render, start the link with postgresql:// -- not just postgres://. You can find full instructions here.

Configuring the database

18. export FLASK_APP=app.py
19. flask db init
20. flask db upgrade head
21. Run python seed.py to seed the database

Starting the client

22. In another terminal, cd into the client directory
23. Run npm install to install dependencies
24. Run npm start to open the app in the browser

Starting the app

25. Once you've installed all client and server dependencies, you can also run the app in one terminal from the main directory: gunicorn --chdir server app:app

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Licensing

MIT License Copyright (c) 2023

References and Acknowledgements

API-Football
RapidAPI-sports
Securing your session key
Create a Flask application with Google Login