WSL Setup Commands

This document gives a general set of commands to install and run Redis, Celery, and MailHog in WSL for a Flask app.

1. Create and activate virtual environment

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

2. Install Python packages

pip install Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-JWT-Extended Flask-CORS Flask-Caching celery redis

3. requirements.txt

Your requirements.txt should contain:

Flask
Flask-SQLAlchemy
Flask-JWT-Extended
Flask-CORS
Flask-Caching
celery
redis

MailHog should not be added to requirements.txt because it is not a Python package.

4. Install Redis in WSL

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y redis-server

5. Run Redis server

redis-server

6. Install MailHog in WSL

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y golang-go
go install github.com/mailhog/MailHog@latest

7. Run MailHog

~/go/bin/MailHog

MailHog UI:

http://localhost:8025

8. Run Flask app

python3 app.py

9. Run Celery worker

celery -A celery_worker.celery_app worker --loglevel=info

10. Run Celery beat

celery -A celery_worker.celery_app beat --loglevel=info

11. Full command summary

Install

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-JWT-Extended Flask-CORS Flask-Caching celery redis
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y redis-server golang-go
go install github.com/mailhog/MailHog@latest

Run

python3 app.py

redis-server

celery -A celery_worker.celery_app worker --loglevel=info

celery -A celery_worker.celery_app beat --loglevel=info

~/go/bin/MailHog