Build a Social Network with Flask - building outside Workspace, on Visual Studio Code

I use PyCharm on OSX, however, IDE's like VScode utilize system binaries and packages. So VSCode will look for an existing installation of python for example. Pip is a package manager for python so installing things with pip, will/should result in VSCode having access to it. Make sure you pay attention to which version of python you are installing/using such as python3/pip3 other python2/pip. And make sure that in VSCode the python PATH is set to the version folder you are intending to use. I obviously suggest python3 as python2 has been retired and deprecated recently.

you are advised to create a virtual environment to work within and install the required packages in there to avoid future conflicts it you have different versions of a package or don't want to keep them beyond this project. Also it is required to create a requirements.txt file and have it in your repository so those using/testing it can install all the same packages to ensure they are working in the same environment you setup during development.

my requirements.txt looks like this:

Flask==1.0.2
Flask-Bcrypt==0.7.1
Flask-Login==0.2.11
flask-peewee==3.0.3
Flask-WTF==0.14.3
Jinja2==2.11.1
lazy-object-proxy==1.4.3
regex==2020.4.4
requests==2.23.0
slugify==0.0.1
SQLAlchemy==1.3.16
sqlparse==0.3.1
urllib3==1.25.8
utils==1.0.1
wcwidth==0.1.9
Werkzeug==1.0.1
wtf-peewee==3.0.0
WTForms==2.2.1