Application Portal

The application portal for WaffleHacks.

Development

For development, you will need the following programs installed:

• Python 3.9 or later
• Poetry
• Docker

Once the required programs are installed, it is time to set up your local environment. The following commands will install all the project dependencies and install pre-commit hooks to ensure consistent code formatting and conventions.

poetry install
poetry shell
pre-commit install

Whenever you are running a Python command in the project, you must make sure you have the virtual environment active. There are two options to activate the virtual environment: use Poetry or do it manually.

# Poetry
poetry shell

# Manual
source ./.venv/bin/activate  # (Linux, MacOS, WSL)
.venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1   # (Windows)

Database Setup

To test the APIs, you will need to have access to a PostgreSQL database. This is where it is handy to have Docker installed. Simply run docker-compose up -d, and a database container will be automatically started for you. The database can be accessed at 127.0.0.1:9427.

Once the database is running, you will need to apply any missing migrations:

python3 manage.py migrations run

To stop the database, simply run docker-compose down.

Running Applications

Once all the previous steps have been completed, you can (finally) start an application. Simply use the manage.py script in the root of the repository to start the necessary application(s).

python3 manage.py run -<app>

# Show all the options
python3 manage.py run --help

# i.e. start the API server
python3 manage.py run --api

(Make sure you're in the project virtual environment when you're using the manage.py script)