Quick guide to running a Flask app by cloning your GitHub repository onto an EC2 instance and how to update the repository to make changes to your app
By Emily Gill
Note: These instructions start after you have already created a Flask app inside of a GitHub repository. Also assumed is that you know how to launch an EC2 instance.
- Make sure that your web app is running locally. Assuming your Flask app script is called app.py, run the following from the command line to check: