meep-backend

Setup

Unix

1. Install python

   sudo apt-get install python3
   

2. clone the master branch

3. create a virtual environment in the project root directory

4. activate the virtual environment source venv/bin/activate

5. pip install requiremnets pip install -r requirements.txt

6. create a sqlite database touch dev.db

7. set dev database environment variable export DEV_DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///dev.db

8. check to see if it created the tables .tables

9. try to display data from a table select * from projects; you should see a list of projects display

10. set flask environment variable to development export FLASK_ENV=development

11. run the app flask run

12. test to see if it worked: in a browser, type localhost:5000/projects you should see some json containing project data

Windows

1. Install python
2. Install pip
3. Install virtualenv
4. clone the master branch
5. create a virtual environment in the project root directory
6. activate the virtual environment venv\Scripts\activate
7. pip install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
8. set dev database environment variable set DEV_DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///dev.db
9. set flask environment variable to development set FLASK_ENV=development
10. run the app flask run
11. test to see if it worked: in a browser, type localhost:5000/projects you should see some json containing project data