Baluchon

Baluchon is a Flask application designed to facilitate the management of projects, files, events, and tasks for bioinformatics projects.

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Main Features

• Quick project management (add, edit, delete).
• Visualization of project dependencies within your local desktop environment.
• Simple tracking of events, tasks, and files associated with each project.
• Intuitive and responsive interface.

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Prerequisites

• Python 3.8 or higher.
• A virtual environment (recommended).
• The dependencies listed in requirements.txt.

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Installation

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/EmilieT/baluchon.git
   cd baluchon

2. Create your virtual environment:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # macOS/Linux

3. Install the dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Initiate your database

   mkdir -p instance
   flask db init
   flask db migrate -m "Initial migration"
   flask db upgrade

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Launch your local instance of Baluchon

1. Activate the virtual environment (if not already active):

   source venv/bin/activate  # On macOS/Linux

2. Run the Flask application:

   python app.py

(The application will start and be available at http://127.0.0.1:5000.)

Notes:

• Make sure you are in the project directory (cd path/to/baluchon).
• If you encounter any errors, check that all dependencies are installed (pip install -r requirements.txt).
• If you prefer using the flask command, set the FLASK_APP environment variable first:

  export FLASK_APP=app.py
  flask run