A better application structure

app/main/__init__.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ from flask import Blueprint
 
 
 bp = Blueprint('main', __name__, cli_group=None)
-from . import routes
+from . import cli, routes

app/main/cli.py

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+from flask import current_app
+from flask_migrate import upgrade
+import os
+from app.models import (
+    CorpusFollowerRole,
+    Role,
+    SpaCyNLPPipelineModel,
+    TesseractOCRPipelineModel,
+    User
+)
+from . import bp
+
+
+@bp.cli.command('deploy')
+def deploy():
+    ''' Run deployment tasks. '''
+    # Make default directories
+    print('Make default directories')
+    base_dir = current_app.config['NOPAQUE_DATA_DIR']
+    default_dirs = [
+        os.path.join(base_dir, 'tmp'),
+        os.path.join(base_dir, 'users')
+    ]
+    for dir in default_dirs:
+        if os.path.exists(dir):
+            if not os.path.isdir(dir):
+                raise NotADirectoryError(f'{dir} is not a directory')
+        else:
+            os.mkdir(dir)
+
+    # migrate database to latest revision
+    print('Migrate database to latest revision')
+    upgrade()
+
+    # Insert/Update default database values
+    print('Insert/Update default Roles')
+    Role.insert_defaults()
+    print('Insert/Update default Users')
+    User.insert_defaults()
+    print('Insert/Update default CorpusFollowerRoles')
+    CorpusFollowerRole.insert_defaults()
+    print('Insert/Update default SpaCyNLPPipelineModels')
+    SpaCyNLPPipelineModel.insert_defaults()
+    print('Insert/Update default TesseractOCRPipelineModels')
+    TesseractOCRPipelineModel.insert_defaults()