homework

This is a dummy python web application used for interviewing.

Installation

• Install and configure a mysql 8.0 database server and create a mysql user for the application
• Install python3, python3-pip and libmysqlclient-dev via the system package manager
• Install the python package dependencies declared in requirements.txt via pip
• Create the .env configuration file in the top level of the repository with the appropriate values for your mysql database
• Execute the countapp/init_database.py script to create the database structure

Configuration

Here is an example .env configuration file

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_USER=root
DB_PASSWORD=changeme
DB_DATABASE=counter

Running the app

Execute the following command in the top level directory

gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:6000 --chdir countapp countapp.wsgi:app --reload --timeout=900