14 Nov

Starting a simple Flask app with Heroku

Inspired by this article on Python Weekly, I thought I'd look into deploying a simple hello world application to Heroku, built on the Flask micro framework.

Here's my workflow:

• Create a new directory and Python virtualenv (make sure virtualenvwrapper is installed!):

  cd ~/dev
  mkdir proj
  cd proj
  mkvirtualenv proj
  

• At …