Now that Flask-Meld is working, it's time to start getting things ready for production. I've been wanting to start developing Meld components for Conveyor. Flask-Meld utilizes WebSockets, which Conveyor does not currently support. To make all of the magic happen NGINX and uWSGI configurations will need to be updated to …

The OAuth flow can be confusing the first time you do it. This article and example project should help you feel more comfortable specifically for people who would like to use OAuth with Digital Ocean.

The code for this application can be found at https://github.com/mikeabrahamsen/flask-digitalocean-oauth-example

Conveyor …

Small UI updates today

Added a card to show additional information:

Just for convenience a link was added to get from the register screen to the login page.

In this iteration a few small changes are going to be made. Here is the current state of the Conveyor registration page:

Here it is after the following changes:

• The width of the form imports are too long
• Add a referral code input
• Make the submit button smaller
• Right align …

Currently Conveyor will install Python 3.6 when you create a server as 3.6 is the version that is used with Ubuntu 18. However, it would be great to have the ability to install more recent versions of Python and be able to use different versions depending on the …

When refactoring the new flow for creating a site the + New Site button was removed so there was only one option to add a site. If you already have a site with Conveyor we need to make sure the add site button is available.

To start I have written two …

This post will explain how to add Google reCAPTCHA to a Python Flask application using Flask-WTF.

The first thing you will need to do is get your SITE KEY and your SECRET KEY from Google reCAPTCHA Make sure to create a reCAPTCHA version 2 site. Version 3 takes much more …

Creating the first site on Conveyor.dev can use some improvement. Currently the user will need to create the site, create the server, then wait for the server to finish provisioning before heading to the "Sites" page where they can then see that the site has not been added to …

The goal with Conveyor is to help Python developers deploy their code.

To help serve this mission, Conveyor.dev is going to allow Flask developers to deploy an api or application to a Linode or Digital Ocean server without the need for a subscription.

Allowing users in without a subscription …

Found a UI bug on the Conveyor event output. The close button is outside of the event modal.

To fix this I'm actually going to move the close button up to the top right corner and make it an X. Just a small rearrangement of html:

<div class="border-b text-center …

Pythonic - an idiom used for the python programming language that encourages code readability while striving for an optimal solution to a problem.

This idiom drove a lot of decisions when building conveyor.dev

To try to make a simple solution that works for most applications.

No container orchestration, no docker …

Once you have your Github webhooks working you will want to add a bit of security to make sure that the requests are actually coming from Github. One way to do this is to verify the signature Github sends matches the digest of the message.

Here is an example of …

Once you have your Github app created you can start receiving webhooks when events occur.

If you want to test this locally you can use an ngrok.io address to route the request to your local computer. Instructions on how to do that can be found at https://developer.github …

Create a Github app to integrate with Github

Using a Github app is the preferred way integrate with Github. By creating a Github app you can give your users more granular control of what you have access to. By transitioning Conveyor.dev to use a Github app the level of …

Sometimes pages grow to a point that the need a little help in order to keep it intuitive for the user. I want to share one way that I have been able to keep pages organized and intuitive to the user by using a sidebar with Flask. No javascript involved …