This is a project created for a presentation on simple prototyping, held at the Sibiu Web Meetup on 21st of March 2024. The recording should be available on the Sibiu Web Meetup YouTube channel.
The purpose of this project is to show how to create a simple prototype without needing to know any technologies outside the standard library of your programming language of choice. For this particular project, I chose Python, but the same principles can be applied to any other language. The example presented is the back-end implementation of a phonebook application. An example of a simple front-end implementation was presented in a previous Sibiu Web Meetup.
To run this project, you need Python installed on your machine. You can download it from the official website.
I recommend using a virtual environment. To create one, using your favorite terminal, run the following commands in the project's root folder:
python -m venv .venvThen, activate the virtual environment. Depending on your operating system and the terminal type, the command will be different:
source .venv/Scripts/activateor
.venv/Scripts/activateor
.venv/bin/activateTo run the master branch of the project, run the following command:
python main.pyThe main will run all the usecases of the application and will print the results in the console.
The result is something like this:
All contacts: []
New contact: ContactOutput(id='c4eb', name='Adi Shamir', phone='7890', email='[email protected]')
Search result: [ContactOutput(id='c4eb', name='Adi Shamir', phone='7890', email='[email protected]')]
Search result: [ContactOutput(id='c4eb', name='Adi Shamir', phone='7890', email='[email protected]')]
Export: [{"id": "c4eb", "name": "Adi Shamir", "phone": "7890", "email": "[email protected]"}]
Updated contact: ContactOutput(id='c4eb', name='Adi Shamir', phone='0007890', email='[email protected]')
Imported: [(ContactOutput(id='c4eb', name='Adi Shamir', phone='7890', email='[email protected]'), ContactOutput(id='c4eb', name='Adi Shamir', phone='0007890', email='[email protected]'))]
Imported selected: [ContactOutput(id='c4eb', name='Adi Shamir', phone='7890', email='[email protected]')]
Deleted: True
The prototyping phase is complete. The next step is to add a REST API layer. This is implemented on another branch of this project. To switch to that branch, run the following command:
git checkout rest-apiThe README file on the rest-api branch will contain instructions on how to run the project with the REST API layer.
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