This is not separated into two repositories only because the task description implies that there should be one repo, otherwise, I would argue that we are better off with separate repositories for server and client apps. For the convenience, API key is located in .env file. Idealy this file would not be part of the repository.
To run the backend application it is necessary to have python 3.6 or higher installed. This project is built with the virtual environment in mind, but it should already be installed (it ships with python 3.3 or higher). We will also need nodejs 10.16 or later and npm (it usually comes with node) to run the frontend app in the development environment.
From here we assume that you have nodejs, npm and python 3 installed.
We must first clone the repository.
Open terminal and run git clone git@github.com:NikolaDojic/aiven-cloud-selection.git ; cd aiven-cloud-selection.
Run ./init_script to set up the environment and install dependencies.
This script will create the virtual environment in the flask_app directory and install necessary libraries, for both flask and react applications.
If the script fails, we will need to manually install the dependencies listed in requirements.txt and package.json for the flask and the react app respectively.
In the flask_app/code/.env file, one should add an authentication token, generated on the profile settings page. Token should be in the FLASK_APP_AIVEN_API_KEY variable (FLASK_APP_AIVEN_API_KEY="$YOUR_TOKEN" where $YOUR_TOKEN is from profile settings page).
After script is done installing, go to flask_app directory cd flask_app and run ./start script.
If the script fails, to run the app, first activate the virtual environment. It should be in the flask_app/venv folder,
change directory to flask_app/code and run python app.py
This should start the development server. It is possible to get an error if port 5000 is already in use.
If that is the case port can be changed in flask_app/code/app.py and react_app/src/config.ts files.
Ports must be equal in both files.
To start the react application, open the terminal and position yourself in the react_app directory, then run npm start
To run the tests for the backend application go to flask_app/code/ directory and run ./run_tests script.
To run the tests for the backend application go to react_app/ directory and run npm run tests.