From 1a17cf43f23e25551e8dec9d63f5054bd1f34cc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ethan Clay (UWE)" <ethan2.clay@live.uwe.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:14:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update readme and add required pip packages

---
 .vscode/settings.json |  7 +++++++
 README                | 12 ++++++++++++
 requirements.txt      |  4 +++-
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .vscode/settings.json

diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a06605d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+    "search.exclude": {
+        "**/*.code-search": false,
+        "**/bower_components": false,
+        "**/node_modules": false
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1e6f3e8..4792dd2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@
 ##########################################
 # To run Flask you will need to be in the virtual environment, to get started enter the following command while within the flask-backend folder
 
+# For the first time running manually you will also need to run the below additional commands
+
+# Linux 
+python3 -m venv .venv
+
+# Windows
+py -3 -m venv .venv
+
+# Both Windows and Mac
+Once done you will need to run pip install on each line of requirements.txt . Once done restart your command line and carry on from the below commands
+to be fully setup.
+
 # Linux
 . .venv/bin/activate
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b71cdc4..e2f9266 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ Flask>=3.0.0
 flask_sqlalchemy
 flask_migrate
 pymysql
-python-dotenv
\ No newline at end of file
+python-dotenv
+jinja2==3.0.0
+jinja2 markupsafe
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