Exercise-Viewer

A very simple Flask web application used by OpenStax researchers to view OpenStax Exercises in a more user friendly way.

How to Use

The exercice-viewer is currently deployed at:

https://abtpvg7emg.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/<exercise_id>

Replace <exercise_id> with the exercise id in Exercises.

Example:

https://abtpvg7emg.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/12345

Development with Docker

You can use Docker to quickly get the application running on your machine.

Install Docker and Docker Compose

Follow the instructions on the Docker website.

Build and run the docker container

$ docker-compose up

Deploying to AWS Lambda

Note: You'll want to make sure you have your AWS credentials file at ~/.aws/credentials filled out for deployment user exercise-viewer

The Zappa project is used to package up the application and deploy it to AWS Lambda.

For deployment to AWS Lambda you'll want to run commands locally so the recommended method is to create a virtualenv and install the deploy requirements locally.

Create a virtualenv

$ python3 -m venv .venv

Activate the virualenv

$ source .venv/bin/activate

Install the deploy requirements

$ pip install -r requirements-deploy.txt

Deploy the application

$ zappa deploy dev