Welcome to the property tax appeal project repository. This is a Flask/React project designed for deployment to AWS Lambda through Terraform which files property tax appeals for low-income homeowners in Detroit and Chicago.
To install Python dependencies and run locally, you'll need Poetry installed. Then you can run:
poetry install
poetry run python app.py
Run the following lines to build and start the app. Must have npm and flask installed. Run npm start on a separate terminal.
npm install
npm startnpm run buildThe app requires credentials. api/.env includes SENDGRID_API_KEY and MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER. api/.googleenv includes google drive service credentials.
To deploy, you need to locally build the sqlite3 database. Run api/make_db.py to do this.