Coffee Shop Full Stack Project

Overview

Introduction

I have created a website that emulates as a cafe for students to order drinks, socialize, and study hard. This website also has password authentication to protect each user's data using Python, JavaScript, TyprScript, SCSS and HTML.

The website has the following functionality:

1. Display graphics representing the ratios of ingredients in each drink.
2. Allow public users to view drink names and graphics.
3. Allow the shop baristas to see the recipe information.
4. Allow the shop managers to create new drinks and edit existing drinks.

Frontend

Installing Dependencies

Installing Node and NPM

This project depends on Nodejs and Node Package Manager (NPM). Before continuing, you must download and install Node (the download includes NPM) from https://nodejs.com/en/download.

Installing Ionic Cli

The Ionic Command Line Interface is required to serve and build the frontend. Instructions for installing the CLI is in the Ionic Framework Docs.

Installing project dependencies

This project uses NPM to manage software dependencies. NPM Relies on the package.json file located in the frontend directory of this repository. After cloning, open your terminal and run:

npm install

tip: npm i is shorthand for npm install

Backend

Python 3.7

Follow instructions to install the latest version of python for your platform in the python docs

Virtual Environment

We recommend working within a virtual environment whenever using Python for projects. This keeps your dependencies for each project separate and organized. Instructions for setting up a virtual environment for your platform can be found in the python docs

PIP Dependencies

Once you have your virtual environment setup and running, install dependencies by naviging to the /backend directory and running:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This will install all of the required packages we selected within the requirements.txt file.

Key Dependencies

• Flask is a lightweight backend microservices framework. Flask is required to handle requests and responses.

• SQLAlchemy and Flask-SQLAlchemy are libraries to handle the lightweight sqlite database. Since we want you to focus on auth, we handle the heavy lift for you in ./src/database/models.py. We recommend skimming this code first so you know how to interface with the Drink model.

• jose JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption for JWTs. Useful for encoding, decoding, and verifying JWTS.

Running the server

From within the ./src directory first ensure you are working using your created virtual environment.

Each time you open a new terminal session, run:

export FLASK_APP=api.py;

To run the server, execute:

flask run --reload

The --reload flag will detect file changes and restart the server automatically.