Stackoverflow

This repository contains code for clone of Stackoverflow site made using

• Python Flask
• MySQL as database
• SQLAlchemy for ORM
• HTML, CSS and Bootstrap for frontend

Prerequisites

sudo apt install python2.7 python-pip
pip install Flask
pip install flask-mysql
pip install flask-sqlalchemy
pip install PyMySQL

Database setup

• install and setup mysql (click here)
• mysql username and password should be set to 'root'
• use data.sql to import the schema, tables and data

Steps to run

• python home.py (from the directory of this project)
• open localhost in browser to see the website

Features supported

• Ask question (with summernote editor)
• Answers (with summernote editor), comments to questions
• Upvote, downvote to questions and answers
• Save questions to Answer Later
• Bookmark answer
• Search questions by tag, title
• List of questions of a particular tag when clicked on it
• View and edit profile

Screenshots

Home Page

Detailed Question-Answer Page

Profile Page

About Us