Meanwise Backend

This is the brand new backend written for Meanwise in Python using Django.

## Installation using Docker

$ cd meanwise-server
$ docker-compose up

Setting up migrations and creating superuser

Open a new tab on terminal after your docker build is generated and the dependencies are installed, also the container must be up and running and run these commands

$ docker-compose exec app bash
$ ./manage.py migrate
$ ./manage.py createsuperuser

## Manual Installation Installation comprises of standard steps used for deploying any Django application.

Installing Python Packages

$ git clone git@github.com:meanwise-eng/meanwise-server.git
$ cd meanwise-server
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ pip install virtualenv
$ pip install virtualenvwrapper
$ source virtualenvwrapper.sh
$ mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3 meanwise

Note: Please check once where python3 is installed in your system if above command shows an error please replace the location with where python3 is installed in your system.

If you're a linux user you might need to do: sudo apt-get install python3-dev

$ workon meanwise
(meanwise)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Installing Postgresql

For people on Mac use brew install postgresql to install latest version of Postgresql. Make sure that you are running v >= 9.4 of Postgresql.
After completing installation run the following commands. We are going to create a new user and database for Meanwise.

$ createdb -Uroot meanwise
$ psql -Uroot -d meanwise

meanwise=# CREATE ROLE meanwise WITH LOGIN;
meanwise=# ALTER ROLE meanwise WITH PASSWORD 'password';
meanwise=# GRANT ALL ON DATABASE meanwise TO meanwise;

Creating Schema

Once we have Django app and Postgresql installed it's now time to create the schema. Go to meanwise_backend and run the following commands..

(meanwise)$ ./manage.py migrate
(meanwise)$ ./manage.py createsuperuser

Follow the instructions to create a super user.

Running the server

Meanwise Backend already includes a uWSGI server and config for running it. Before running the following commands make sure you edit uwsgi.dev.ini located in meanwise_backend/meanwise_backend.
Here's a sample config:

[uwsgi]
# Environment Variables
env = ENVIRONMENT=development
env = DATABASE=default

chdir=<PATH_TO_MEANWISE_BACKEND>
module=meanwise_backend.wsgi:application
master=True
pidfile=<PATH_TO_MEANWISE_BACKEND>/meanwise_backend.pid
vacuum=True
max-requests=5000
daemonize=<PATH_TO_MEANWISE_BACKEND>/log/uwsgi.log
home=<PATH_TO_MEANWISE_BACKEND>/env/
http=127.0.0.1:49100    # Use this to run it on port 49100
socket=<PATH_TO_MEANWISE_BACKEND>/meanwise_backend.sock  # Use this to run it on socket
py-autoreload=5

Now run the following commands

(meanwise)$ mkdir logs
(meanwise)$ uwsgi --ini meanwise_backend/uwsgi.dev.ini

You can check <PATH_TO_MEANWISE_BACKEND>/log/uwsgi.log for logs. To stop and start the server again you can either reload or stop and start the server again.

(meanwise)$ uwsgi --reload meanwise_backend.pid
(meanwise)$ uwsgi --stop meanwise_backend.pid
(meanwise)$ uwsgi --ini meanwise_backend/uwsgi.dev.ini

Deploying using fabric

Current there is a very basic deployment script added to the repo. The deployment script can be used to deploy code on staging. Use the following command for that.

fab -f meanwise_backend/fabfile.py -R staging deploy

Documentation for API endpoints