FairAssistanceQueue

Production Site

A production version of this site can be found here. To access a playground classroom with baseline permissions, use the class code "CLASS-TEST".

Sources

• Fair Assistance Queue name - thanks Prof O!

Setup

Install flask:

• Inside faq_server folder directory run pip3 install Flask
• All done. Check to see if it's there:
  python3 -c "import flask; print(flask.__version__)"

Setup Frontend

• Inside faq-client install yarn: npm install -g yarn

Install dependencies

• inside faq_server:
  • CORS package: pip install -U flask-cors to install the CORS package used in faq_server.py
  • flask_sqlalchemy: pip install Flask-SQLAlchemy
• inside faq-client:
  • run the yarn command to update project with relevant packages.

Running the app

• Inside faq_server run: flask --app faq_server --debug run
  • if this doesn't work, run FLASK_APP=__init__.py python3 -m flask run
  • ensure the app is running off of port 5000 since this is the port the front end is sending requests to.
• Inside faq-server run: yarn dev
  • to see the web app in the browser, go to the url specified in the terminal.

Once the app is running

• For a demonstration, enter the course code CPTR-101 and the admin key 9edc9e13-aa87-4c9e-8ac4-d14e7857abea. This admin key will work wherever an admin key is specified anywhere on the site.

Important notes

• If for some strange reason things are not updating, try clearing the cache on the browser and refreshing. For example, this is accomplished on mac by simultaneously holdind down shift + command + R.
• Although normally bad practice, .env files are added here to make this project easy to set up.