Andela Cohort 10 Project

Library Application

This is a simple Web application that helps in the running and management of a library. It allows a user to do the following tasks.

• Signup / login.
• View all available books.
• Borrow any available book.
• Track the status of a book.
  • Borrowed.
  • Available.
• Manage and keep inventory of books through.
  • Adding of new books.
  • Deleting of books.
• Managing the borrowing of books through;
  • Issuing fines to members that haven't returned books past their due date.
  • Receiving of borrowed books.

Installation Instructions.

You will be required to install virtualenv.

   $ pip install virtualenv

Then create you own virtual env within the project repository.

   $ virtualenv [name]

Once created use the following command to get your virtual environment to run.

   $ path to dir\[virtual environment name]\Scripts\activate

Do the same for killing the virtual environment.

   $ path to dir\[virtual environment name]\Scripts\deactivate

Once running you should have the following view on the command line.

   $ (virtual environment name) path to dir\

Once done install the desired application dependancies listed below.

The Following Are The Application Dependancies

The following is a list of required libraries that need to be installed so as to run the application successfully.

$ pip install [package name]

• Flask==0.11.1
• Flask-Bootstrap==3.3.7.0
• Flask-Script==2.0.5
• Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.1
• Flask-WTF==0.13.1
• imageio==1.6
• itsdangerous==0.24
• Jinja2==2.8
• MarkupSafe==0.23
• passlib==1.6.5
• SQLAlchemy==1.1.1
• Werkzeug==0.11.11
• WTForms==2.1

Finally once done, key in the following command to launch the application.

$ (virtual environment name) path to dir\python run.py

Open the link displayed to view the application.

  http://127.0.0.1:7000/