Starting off

Once more, as we did in the previous chapters, let's create a completely new directory and virtual environment for this application:

$ mkdir -p ~/src/shutterbug && cd ~/src/shutterbug
$ mkvirtualenv shutterbug
$ pip install flask flask-sqlalchemy pytest-flask flask-bcrypt

Create the following application layout to start:

├── application/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── resources
│       ├── __init__.py
│       └── photos.py
├── conftest.py
├── database.py
├── run.py
├── settings.py
└── tests/

Note

The application layout presented here is different from the typical Blueprint-based structure that we used in previous chapters; we will use the suggested layout for typical Flask-RESTful applications, which also suits the simplicity of the Shutterbug application.