natureinpots_community/README.md

Nature In Pots – Modular Flask Plant Management App

This project is a modular, plugin-driven Flask application for tracking plants, their health, lineage, pricing, media, and more.

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📦 Core Features

• 🔐 User Authentication (auth)
• 🌱 Plant Identity Profiles (plant)
• 📊 Grow Logs with Events (growlog)
• 🖼 Media Upload & Attachments (media)
• 🔍 Tag-based and name-based Search (search)
• 🛠 CLI Tools for Preloading and Seeding (cli)
• 🎨 UI Macros and Shared Layout (core_ui)

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🧱 Plugin System

Each feature is implemented as a plugin under the plugins/ directory. Each plugin is self-contained and includes:

• models.py
• routes.py
• forms.py (if applicable)
• templates/
• plugin.json

Plugins are auto-loaded via app/__init__.py.

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🏗 Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11+
• MySQL server
• Virtualenv or Docker

Setup

make install     # Install dependencies
make dev         # Start Flask development server
make db          # Initialize database
make seed        # Seed database with test data