Fiiiiiine, I’ll make a web app

The other day, Apple officially slapped me in the face (rejected my iphone app). I was heartbroken (not really). Anyways, tonight I was bored so I adapted my iphone app into a web app!

I used python, Flask, deployed it to Heroku, and then pointed my personal domain’s DNS to the heroku site. At first, I was going to use a postgreSQL database to store all of the possible first and last names, but that got too dramatic. (I forgot how to do it), so I ended up just having one file.

First, I included a makename() function that had 2 lists (firstnames and lastnames). Then, I assign firstname to a random item from the firstnames list, and I did the same for assigning the lastname. Then, the function returned a concatenated fullname.

first_name = random.choice(first_names)
last_name = random.choice(last_names)
full_name = "%s %s" % (first_name, last_name)
return full_name

And here is the 2nd function:

@app.route('/')
def got():
    dj_name = make_name()
    return render_template('index.html', dj_name=dj_name)

So that was that! All I had to add into my index.html template was {{ dj_name }}! I also put a .css file into my static folder cause I like to get **stylish** 😀 For a good guide to walk you through creating a flask app that will successfully deploy to heroku, follow these instructions.