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Posted by Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

Some doubts when deploying Flask project to Heroku

I have the social network ready to deploy to Heroku but Heroku only supports Postgres Databases. I have found that Postgres works very well with SQLAlchemy so should I change all the models from Peewee to SQLAlchemy? What can I do in cases like this?:

    class User(UserMixin, Model):
        username = CharField(unique=True)
        email = CharField(unique=True)
        password = CharField(max_length=100)
        joined_at = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
        is_admin = BooleanField(default=False)

    def name_exists(form, field):
        if User.select().where(User.username == field.data).exists():
             raise ValidationError('User with that name already exists.')

All I came up with is this:

    class User(UserMixin, db.Model):
        id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
            username = db.Column(db.String(80), unique=True)
            email = db.Column(db.String(120), unique=True)

1 Answer

minzawmra
PLUS
minzawmra
Courses Plus Student 15,682 Points
minzawmra
minzawmra
Courses Plus Student 15,682 Points

You don't need to change your models. You can still connect to a Postgres database through Peewee. You just need to create a Postgres database handle when the app runs on Heroku.