DataRover

A friendly no-code data manager (for your grandma too)

Installation

Python server

1. In the terminal, or command prompt, move to the server folder.

2. Run the following command:

   python -m venv venv
   

3. When the installation finished, when use with VS Code, click View -> Command Palette -> Python: Select Interpreter.

   In the prompt input, enter:

   .\server\venv\Scripts\python.exe
   

4. Activate the virtual environment.

   For Windows, run:

   venv\Scripts\activate.bat
   

   For Mac/Linix, run:

   source venv/bin/activate
   

5. Install Python packages (currently, Python 3.8 is supported)

   Run the command:

   pip install -r server/requirements.txt
   

6. In the root folder, create a file called .env name. Add the following content to it:

   FLASK_APP=server.application

7. If you use VS Code, create a launch.json as described here https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/tutorial-flask#_run-the-app-in-the-debugger

   When prompted to enter the python file name, change app.py to application.py.

Front-end

In another terminal, run the following command to install the NPM packages:

npm install

Running

1. In one terminal, move to server folder and run the command:

   flask run
   

   or, if you use VS Code click Run -> Start Debugging.

2. In another terminal (for example, windows prompt), move to webapp folder and run the following command:

   npm run dev
   

   This commain will run the webpack server with hot reloading. To compile the production code, please run the following command:

   npm run prod
   

3. In your favorite browser, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5000/