Python Backend #5: Deploy Your Flask App (Free Hosting Setup Guide)

🚀 Learn how to deploy your Flask app for FREE using Render.com — no paid hosting required! In this video, we walk through everything from creating your GitHub repo to deploying your API live on the internet. Previous Video: https://youtu.be/NRN2DFpViYc Previous project files: https://github.com/NDCSwift/Swift-Projects/raw/refs/heads/main/Python-Projects/PythonBackedExample_4.zip 🔗 Links: Flask: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/ Render: https://render.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/ Example Code & Resources: https://ndcswift.github.io/Swift-Projects/ 🔹 What You’ll Learn: ✅ How to deploy your Flask API using GitHub + Render ✅ What goes in your requirements.txt and gunicorn setup ✅ How to connect a live endpoint from Postman or the browser ✅ API security basics and how to test your public endpoint 🔹 Who is this for? ✅ Python devs ready to share their project online ✅ Anyone building APIs for apps or portfolios ✅ Devs who want a free, simple deploy pipeline Manual github remote / push git remote add origin https://github.com/yourusername/flask-api-project.git git push -u origin main 🔥 Download My Project Files 👉 Get the source code here: 🔗 https://ndcswift.github.io/Swift-Projects/ ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro & tools for today 00:52 – Check your api before launching 01:22 – Opening a folder in VS code 02:13 – Creating a requirements.txt 02:50 – updating requirements.txt 04:00 – Procfile 05:06 – optional Readme file 05:26 – Pushing to github with VS code 07:30 – Using Render to host our API for free 08:24 – Syncing GitHub & render 09:00 – Configure on Render 10:27 – Deployment 11:44 – Testing with Postman 14:44 – ReadMe file Markdown 16:19 – Protecting our API with a key (.ENV) 18:38 – Requiring an API key for a route 21:19 – Local Testing if needed 21:33 – Creating a .gitignore 22:39 – Import fix for wraps 23:14 – Testing our API key requirement 25:07 – Wrap up & Whats next