Getting Started with your Flask / React project

This project uses Create-React-App, Flask and SQLite.

Available Scripts

You will need to be running two scrips in two separate terminal tabs / windows.

One will be for for running the Flask server, and the other for the React server.

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Install dependencies

For Flask

First, make sure you drop into the /api directory, create and then run a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

(For future sessions, only source venv/bin/activate will be needed to start the virtual environment. I recommend aliasing this command!)

Then install all dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt (only the first time)

For React

In your other Terminal window, in the root of the project directory, run npm install (only the first time)

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Run the servers

For Flask

Ensure that your virtual environment is running (You should see a (venv) at the end of your prompt)

Then: On Mac: move back to the root of the project and run

npm run start-api

On Windows: Stay in the /api directory and run

flask run --no-debugger

This will run the Flask server on port 5000

For the React server

Run npm run start

This will start your React dev server on port 3000.

You should now be able to see the app in the browser.

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To stop the app:

For Flask

Use ctrl + C to stop the server Run deactivate to stop the virtual environment. You do not need to move into the /api directory first. (You do need to in order to start the virtual environment, though.)

For React

Use ctrl + C to stop the server.

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Have fun! 😎 🎉 💻