/cloud_chat

Primary LanguageCSS

Cloud Chatroom

About

This is a cloud computing project.

Instructions

Below are the installing and running procedues

Installing

For this project, I used : npm v6.14.10, pip v20.3.3, python v3.7

  1. make sure you have python, npm, and pip installed on your machine.
  2. Enter in to the directary src/templates/ and run the command npm install. This will download and install all the dependencies listed in package.json.
  3. Create a python virtualenv(Optional) using miniconda: conda create -n cloud python=3.7
  4. Run conda activate cloud
  5. Install python dep with the command $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

  1. In terminal : export FLASK_DEBUG=1 && export FLASK_ENV=development
  2. Run flask run in the root dir
  3. In the templates directory, start the npm watcher to build the front end code with the command npm run watch
  4. If all is working correctly, you will be given an address http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Reference

You can find a walkthrough of how to build this application from scratch on my blog