# Installing required components and general set up This project requires that docker, python3.8 >=, pip, make and curl be pre-installed Install those, then run 'make install'. Then run the command `export FLASK_APP=src/app.py`. This tells the flask command where the application to run is located. Also be sure to obtain a .env file from a project maintainer that has one, and place it in the src directory. # Running Backend To run backend, you first need to build the "base" docker image which includes all of the python dependencies our server uses. To do this, in the backend repository folder run `make install` and `make build-base` OR run `make install` from the top level chefmoji folder. Then, you can run the following commands: `make prod`: run app in pseudo-production mode. Navigate to localhost:8080 to play with the application. `make debug-prod`: spawn an sh shell in the created docker instance that normally simply runs in production. Useful for debugging purposes. Notes on Protocol Buffers: .proto and compiled .py files are located under src/protocol_buffers