PrivacWeb

A tool made to encourage transparency on the web and to enable users to better understand the information being gathered from websites.

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Built With

• Vue.js + Vuetify
• Flask

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11+
• Latest NPM and Node

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Manually

1. Clone the repo - git clone git@github.com:nafaaal/Dissertation.git

2. Run the backend

• Go into the backend directory - cd Dissertation/backend

• Create a virtual environment - python3 -m venv venv

• Activate the virtual environment

  • Linux/MacOS/WSL2 - source venv/bin/activate
  • Windows CMD - C:\> <venv>\Scripts\activate.bat
  • Windows PowershellPS C:\> <venv>\Scripts\Activate.ps1

• Install all the needed dependencies - pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run the Flask server - python app.py

A development backend server should now be running at 127.0.0.1:5000

3. Run the frontend

• Go into the frontend directory - cd Dissertation/frontend
• Install all the needed dependencies - npm install
• Run the development server - npm run serve

A development frontend server should now be running at 127.0.0.1:8080