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Updated on June 5, 2015 in #flask

Build a SAAS App with Flask: Part 4

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Learn about the Build a SAAS App with Flask project, this is part 4 of a 5 part series.

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Build a SAAS App with Flask been completely re-recorded from scratch as version 2.

Read About v2

The source code can be found here: https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask

# Looking for the Other Parts of This Series?

# What’s Been Added Since Part 3?

Real time tweets are streamed over a websocket server. I know part 3 ended off with better tests coming next, but that didn’t seem worthy of a dedicated post.

The good news is there’s a lot higher test coverage now and the tests have been re-worked quite a bit. The important bits of the app have very high test coverage.

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Twitter stream

  • Connect to Twitter’s streaming API
  • Read in tweets as they come in

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Broadcast queue

  • Broadcast the stream events through a rate limited task queue

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Paid members can view it in a browser

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CLI additions

  • run routes to get a list of all available routes
  • run stream to listen, broadcast or fake broadcast to the websocket server

# On the Horizon

A lot of refactoring to clean up and normalize the code base. Now that we have a lot of test coverage, this is the perfect time for doing that.

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