requirements.txt

 Application is broken down into 3 micro-services in three different folders


 1. api/ => this houses the api calls (a sub python app)
 2. frontend/ => this houses the UI and the frontend routes which the user communicates with (a sub python app)
 3. Notepad/  => the main Python project


NOTE :: if the node_modules dir is not present inside the /frontend dir or you notice some UI related error while runnning
        the application, simple go into the /frontend dir and run the following command
        => npm install.  This installs all the needed packages to run the reactjs frontend part of the application

        


 REQUIREMENTS

 python3 (v3)
 pip3
 node  (v14.17.0)
 npm (v6.14.13)


 to run the application, navigate to the root dir and run the following command 
 => /python3 manage.py runserver 
        (CLI MESSAGE =>Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/)

Navigate to /frontend dir on another CLI/Terminal and run th following command to run the react server
=> npm run dev
       (CLI MESSAGE => webpack 5.52.0 compiled successfully in 3252 ms )


Once the two servers have been initiated, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to see the applicatoin runnning