Backend starter code

Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud

Installation & Running

Note: Python 3.7.3 required

1. Install PyCharm (professional version is free for students)
2. Clone repository
3. Install docker and docker compose
4. Confirm unit tests run successfully with docker-compose -f docker-compose.test.yml -p MyAppRest-tests up --exit-code-from tests --force-recreate --build
5. Set up the virtual environment
6. pip install -r requirements.txt in virtualenv
7. Run Run bg services. To ensure BG services started successfully go to services, and check the logs for each container. Usually take 60sec to fully initialize.
8. Run Create db. Double check that the schema was created (postgresql://serviceclient:password@localhost:5433/myappdb)
9. Run Run MyApp dev. Ensure that services started up correctly.

Services

Postgres

Can reset the postgres database by deleting the .postgres folder (rm -rf .postgres). Make sure to you stop the postgres container before doing this and you restart it after.

MyAppRest

REST API for your app. Currently at http://localhost:5000