text: """Main application for twitoff"""
  
  #imports
  from decouple import config
  from flask import Flask, render_template, request
  from .models import DB, User
  
  def create_app():
      """create and configures an instance of a flask app"""
      app = Flask(__name__)
  
      app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = config('DATABASE_URL')
      app.config['ENV'] = config('ENV') #should change this later to production
      app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS']= False
  
      DB.init_app(app)
  
      @app.route('/')
      def root():
          users = User.query.all()
          return render_template('base.html', title='Home', users=users)
      return app
  