Providentia Flask

Configuration

Look to config.py for a template of the configuration file. One needs to create a instance/config.py which will have the dev or prod specific configurations. Examples of dev or prod configurations will be seen commented out in config.py.

Running Flask Backend

The following steps show how to run the Flask backend baremetal. To run this in Docker refer to ../docker-compose.yml.

Install

Providentia

Create a virtualenv and activate it:

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Set up Providentia requirements and environment variables

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install python-dotenv

Database

See ../providentia-db/docker-containers for instructions on how to start the PostGIS docker container. The analytics are stored in the providentia database - details of which can be seen in the ./db directory.

Run

flask run --no-reload