The Multiuser Engagement Editing Program
Team Members:
- John Arena
- Jeter Gutierrez
- Kelly Lu
- Alexander Matson
The application will be a set of REST APIs implemented in Python/Flask on the backend. The backend will handle all application logic, data management, user permissions, etc.
The APIs will transmit JSON-encoded responses.
The frontend will be a ReactJS application that interfaces with the backend by performing HTTP calls on the API. If this proves to be too much work, we can fall back to building a vanilla JavaScript/HTML frontend which would probably be easier.
Backend is a Python3 Flask project, configured in a virtual environment. On Linux/MacOS,
go inside the backend/ directory and execute source env/bin/activate to enable the
Python environment.
Then, set up the Flask environment variables.
export FLASK_APP="meep"
export FLASK_ENV="development"
Finally, start the Python server with flask run.
Frontend is a React project. Install and configure NodeJS on your system, then in a terminal, navigate to the frontend folder.
Perform npm install to install the dependencies, and then run npm start to run a local development server for the React app. It will be listening on localhost:8090, so navigate there in the browser.
Webpack will take the contents of app/index.jsx and compile them to public/bundle.js. The webpack dev server is installed with a hot-reloading plugin. Every time you modify the "index.jsx" file, the webpage will automatically reload with your changes.