Move Up - SMS Tool

This project will allow potential clients to sign up for Move Up's services by texting a dedicated hotline.

Development Team

Project Manager: Albert Kragl

Developers: Alana Ceci, Alex Lam, Jonathan Colaco Carr, Kira Noël, Madonna Huang, Nafiz Islam, Tom Wright, Xin Rui Li, Yasasa Abey

Setup and Installation

To get the backend set up, follow the instructions in the README in the backend folder.

Running the backend requires having some environment variables defined. To do this, create a file called .env at the root of the backend folder, and define variables in the following format:

EXAMPLE_VAR=example_value
SECRET_VAR=supersecretpassword

You will need to define values for FLASK_CONFIG (can be either development, testing or production), TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN (auth token for your Twilio account) and TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID (SID for your Twilio account). Once this file is created with proper values, the app will automatically load them into the environment when run. To use these environment variables, you can do the following in your code:

import os

# get the value of the TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable
env_var = os.environ.get("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN")