HealthID-web-api

Health ID is an inventory management and customer engagement software platform designed for pharmacists/chemists and their customers. For pharmacists/chemists, Health ID helps them run their stores more efficiently and grow their business by improved targeting of promotions and value-added services. For consumers, Health ID improves their overall experience of pharmacies, provides personalised services and information, and also offers unique product discounts.

API documemation links

Graphql API Documentation

Django API Documentation

Installing

    $ git clone https://github.com/bryanmezue/healthid-web-api.git
    $ cd healthid-web-api
    $ pip install virtualenv
    $ virtualenv --python=python3 venv
    $ source venv/bin/activate
    $ git checkout dev

Install binary dependencies for the project for macOS.

    $ brew install cairo pango gdk-pixbuf libffi

If you are running Linux or another Operating System refer to this link https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#installing
Create a .env file and copy/paste the environment variables from the .env_example file that's already existent in the root project directory.
Run the following commands to install Python dependecies as well as generate staticfiles.

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
    $ python manage.py collectstatic

Create a postgreSQL database called healthid using the default postgres user and change the value of variable DB_PASSWORD in your .env file to your postgres user's password.
Run the following commands to make the database migrations.

    $ python manage.py makemigrations
    $ python manage.py migrate

Running the application

Run the command below to run the application locally.

  $ python manage.py runserver

Running the tests

Run the command below to run the tests for the application.

  $ python manage.py test

Deployment

The application's deployment is still pending for the backend APIs. Details will be filled here as soon as it is ready.

Built With

The project has been built with the following technologies so far:

Django - web framework for building websites using Python
GraphQL - query language for our APIs.
Virtual environment - tool used to create isolated python environments
pip - package installer for Python
PostgreSQL - database management system used to persists the application's data.

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