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Usage: flask run [OPTIONS]
Error: Could not locate Flask application. You did not provide the FLASK_APP environment variable.
Tried many ways but far nothing has worked and the error message is the same in each case. How can I fix this error?
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This is how I solve my error
Assuming you had call app=App(__name__) in your init file. Try this, even though technically it should work with run.py as-well.
export FLASK_APP=app/__init__.py; flask run
Also try doing an echo $FLASK_APP later to see if the value actually gets stored in the environment variable which flask directly accesses and not only the bash profile.
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