goodtimes

Web-app to track, share and recommend books and media our friends are enjoying

Quickstart

# Install Pythong dependencies into virtual environment
pip install -r requirements

# Install js dependencies
npm run install

# Run the frontend builder 
npm run start

# Run app locally (Ensuring in development environment)
echo 'FLASK_ENV=development' > .flaskenv
python main.py

While this will run the application, most endpoints will require use of the backend database.

Database

Create a local Postgres database called goodtimes. Follow README in alembic/ folder to build database tables. For testing, you will need at least one user:

python scripts/create_user.py

Update a file /config/config to contain a variable postgres_db with your postgres username and password as follows:

postgres_db="postgresql://username:password@localhost/goodtimes"

What it's using to work

Using scss, which is just like css but gives you some nice things like variables mixins and things. I installed a tool called Parcel that basically does the work of compiling them elm and the scss into html, css, and javascript.

The main entry point is the html file at src/index.html. Parcel follows the dependencies and builds what it needs to. Since src/index.js imports an elm file, it compiles the elm. Since src/index.html links to a scss file, it converts it to css!

TODO

• Update index.js to not hardcode 'local'
• Serve the frontend
• Create managed database that we can run in production
• Host the backend
• Setup so that deploying changes is fairly easy (github actions?)
• Run with wsgi? Gunicorn? Productioner server, wasup?
• Automatically redirect from http to https

Interacting with the cloud:

Updating code

Pushing to the heroku remote automatically redploys:

git push heroku main

Database migrations

heroku run alembic upgrade head --app good-times-buzz

View logs

heroku logs --tail