sousatg/piglatin

HTTP API that receives a phrase and translates it into Piglatin. The API is protected with rate limiting.

Piglatin API

Features

• API rate limited (user rate)
• Token based authentication (JWT)
• Logging
• Instrumentation with Prometheus
• API Documented with OpenAPI

Installation

Setup

Follow the following directions for clonning the repository and installing requirements.

What you'll need

• Git
• Docker
• Docker-Compose
• make (Windows - CMD, MacOS - brew, Ubuntu/WSL - apt)

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/sousatg/piglatin

Change directories into the main project folder

cd piglatin

Create a file with the environment variables

Create a .env file at the root folder with the following environment variables:

• PORT - Piglating running port.
• DEBUG_PORT - Piglating debugpy running port (use to debu with VSCode)
• DEBUG - Is the application running in debug mode or not (True/False)
• DATABASE_ENGINE -
• DATABASE_NAME - A pre created database in our Postgres instance
• DATABASE_USER - A user with previledges to the database
• DATABASE_PASSWORD - The database user password
• DATABASE_PORT - Port used to connect to our database
• DATABASE_HOST - The Postgres database host our app will connect
• MAIL_SERVER - Address of the email server
• MAIL_PORT - Port used by the email server
• JWT_SECRET_KEY - The key used for the JWT tokens

Start the project

1. Build the docker images using docker-compose build.
2. At the root folder run docker-compose up -d.
3. Make sure all images are running with docker ps.

Useful commands

• make tests - will run the django tests
• make bash - runs docker-compose exec blog bash

API Reference / Monitoring

• Swagger UI
• Prometheus

Built With

• Flask
• Flask-JWT-Extended
• SQLAlchemy
• Gunicorn
• Postgres
• Redis