WanderShop

Run Server

• backend server uses the Flask framework and is run with gunicorn
• virtualenv is used to maintain dependencies
• To activate virtualenv, run source venv/bin/activate in project root
• To run the server from project root: gunicorn --chdir ./Server wsgi:app (in virtualenv)

Continuous Deployment with Heroku

• Heroku-deployment branch serves as continuous deployment branch to Heroku
  • Pushing to this branch will trigger an automatic build and new release on Heroku server
• Heroku config variables are used to supply credentials and keys to the server on Heroku
• private_config.py is used to supply these credentials locally for development (not on Git)
• A cloud ClearDB database is used to house all backend data
• To run the Heroku build locally, download the Heroku CLI and run heroku local (in virtualenv)

Server Requirements in virtualenv

• run 'pip freeze > requirements.txt' to refresh requirements file

To start the React Native App

• cd ./WanderShopApp
• npm install
• react-native run-ios
• in global.js, uncomment the line to point to the appropriate backend
  • localhost:8000 is the local gunicorn instance
  • localhost:5000 is the local heroku instance
  • https://wandershop-server.herokuapp.com/ is the online Heroku server

To set up mySQL server

• modify credentials in server.py
• utilize scripts in $PROJ_ROOT/db to set up server with data

Local build requirements

• updated copy of Git repo
• private_config.py