Backend Stack

Python 3.8+
[FastAPI]
[PostgreSQL 12/13]
[SQLAlchemy]
[Redis]

Quickstart

Install Python Dependencies

Install required python packages. Create a virtual environment (python3 -m venv venv, then source venv/bin/activate. From this directory (/backend) run the following command:

	pip3 install -r requirements.txt

For SAML auth, we also need to install some system packages.

On Ubuntu:

apt-get install libffi-dev xmlsec1 libxmlsec1-openssl

Mac/Homebrew:

brew install xmlsec1

Start Webserver

To start the webserver, run uvicorn from the backend directory with the following command:

	$ uvicorn app.main:app --reload

Here, app.main is the path to the main.py source file and :app is the name of the FastAPI webserver defined in that file.

Style Guidelines and Linting

Code style is being enforced with black and linting is being done with pylint.

Testing

Tests are implemented using pytest. Run them with the following command: