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.. _tutorial-folders:
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Step 0: Creating The Folders
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It is recommended to install your Flask application within a virtualenv. Please
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read the :ref:`installation` section to set up your environment.
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Now that you have installed Flask, you will need to create the folders required
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for this tutorial. Your directory structure will look like this::
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/flaskr
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/flaskr
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/static
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/templates
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The application will be installed and run as Python package. This is the
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recommended way to install and run Flask applications. You will see exactly
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how to run ``flaskr`` later on in this tutorial.
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For now go ahead and create the applications directory structure. In the next
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few steps you will be creating the database schema as well as the main module.
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As a quick side note, the files inside of the :file:`static` folder are
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available to users of the application via HTTP. This is the place where CSS and
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JavaScript files go. Inside the :file:`templates` folder, Flask will look for
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`Jinja2`_ templates. You will see examples of this later on.
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For now you should continue with :ref:`tutorial-schema`.
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.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
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