Seed data for the API can be loaded using the included Makefile. You can execute it in one of two ways:
- To run the seed data importer natively, run
make seed-data - To run the seed data importer in a docker container, use the convenient
./data.sh seed-datascript.
When natively executing the import, you need to manually set up dependencies, like python packages (see requirements.txt) as well as other system dependencies (see Dockerfile). You also need to manually set several env vars to allow the application to connect to the Postgres database that will host the data.
If running using a docker container, application dependencies will be automatically installed for you (you do need to have docker and docker-compose properly set up) and env vars will be loaded from the .env file at the root of the project - see the env.default file for an example/skeleton of the .env file you'll need to have.