A system for organizing communities, with features such as calendars, announcements, and home pages. Currently being developed by Team C for CS 497S: Scalable Web Systems, taught by Professor Tim Richards at UMass Amherst.
This repository contains the web user interface for this system.
The service is deployed here.
To build the service for development, use the following instructions:
- Run
./scripts/build-for-server.sh - Run
pipenv install - Set environment variables:
export FLASK_APP=serverexport FLASK_ENV=developmentexport GROUP_SERVER_HOST=http://<hostname>:<port>export EVENT_SERVER_HOST=http://<hostname>:<port>export IMAGE_SERVER_HOST=http://<hostname>:<port>- If the latter three variables are not set, the server defaults to http://localhost:5001, http://localhost:5002, and http://localhost:5003, respectively.
- Run
pipenv run flask run
The build-for-server script must be re-run each time the client is
edited in order for Flask to serve it. Alternatively, cd into
client and run yarn serve to refresh the client after each
change. This method does not allow the client to connect to the server.
To test the service on your local machine, install Mountebank and
run ./test/test.sh to run a bash script. This script
stubs out upstream services with Mountebank and runs test with
pytest.
This web app is designed according to the backends for frontends pattern described by Sam Newman in Building Microservices. The server sends a single-page Vue.js app and also hosts an API to service requests from the client.
The server is developed with Flask and uses the Requests library to send requests to upstream services. The data from the responses is then repackaged and sent along to the client. In this way, the backend can organize data in a more convenient format for the client.
Documentation for the backend's API is here.