Dash App Template for DATA 624

1. Fork the repository to your account
2. Clone the repository to your machine
3. Create a new environment and install the requirements
4. Customize the dummy text a bit
5. Make sure it runs on your local machine

python dashboard.py

You should be able to view the website at "http://0.0.0.0:8050/" or "http://localhost:8050/"

6. Create an account at "https://pythonanywhere.com"
7. Log in and open a Bash console
8. Clone your updated app into the home directory
9. Make a virtual environment (this time don't use conda if you used it before).

mkvirtualenv dash624env --python=/usr/bin/python3.10

10. Install the requirements into your new virtual environment
11. Navigate to the pythonanywhere "web" link (in the top right menu in the bash window)
12. Click "Add a new web app"
13. Click on Flask
14. Click on Python 3.10
15. Enter the path to dashboard.py in pythonanywhere
16. Under the "Virtualenv:" heading write what you named your environment (still in the web tab of pythonanywhere)
17. Uncer the "Code:" heading click on the "WSGI configuration file:" link to edit the file, and change

from dashboard import app as application

to

from dashboard import app
application = app.server

18. Go back into the "Web" tab, hit reload, and then try the link.

Notes

web on pythonanywhere will not aumatically updated based on any github changes, need to pull changes for integration