Environment Variables - leon0707/flask-boilerplate GitHub Wiki

Ways to set environment variables for flask

1. Save in .xxxrc shell files or export in console.

   run export FLASK_APP=app in console

   or

   save in .zshrc

   export FLASK_APP=app
   export FLASK_RUN_PORT=5000
   

2. Use python-dotenv

   Save pbulic variables in .flaskenv

   # flask port
   FLASK_RUN_PORT=5000
   
   # import instance
   FLASK_APP=app
   

   Save private variables in .env

   MYSQLDB_URI
   

Get environment variables in configuration

os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/cli/#environment-variables-from-dotenv