Authentication system

[AntonPiccardoSelg]

Test only after #2 has been merged

This is a first attempt to add a login and user authentication system. It lets Flask-User do all the hard work.

Main inspirations were:

• Flask-User Starter app
• Flack

Known Problems are:

• Email confirmation doesn't work well at the moment; we need a warning if someone has registered but not confirmed the email
• generally a bit buggy

Future extenions, problems and questions:

• Should have MySQL as database
• How often will the database be hit? Only login, logout and register?
• Is it possible to have a caching layer with SQLAlchemy?
• How can we scale the database with SQLAlchemy?

To run + test

1. Create a sqllite data base with python3 manage.py create_db
2. Run the server with python3 manage.py runserver
3. Open 127.0.0.1:5000
4. Register. You will get an email with a confirmation link. Accept it
5. Log in
6. Log out ...

Try some variations

[AntonPiccardoSelg]

@matthew-d-jones all i wanted to add has been done now