andrewscohen / Artizen

Community driven street art aggregator inspired by MapMyRun that leverages several Google Maps API packages.

Artizen is an app that puts a public art spin on MapMyRide. Users can upload photos and locations of works of public art to a map and create walking routes to explore them. It leverages several different Google Maps API services to render art locations on a map and to generate and render routes for walks.

Try the live site here. | View the database schema and feature list in the Wiki.

Tech Stack

Artizen uses the following tools, frameworks, and key packages:

Flask-SQLAlchemy (with PostgreSQL)

Flask

React

Redux

AWS S3

react-google-maps/@api

Google Maps JavaScript API

react-modal

Hosted on Heroku

Running Artizen Locally

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/andrewscohen/Artizen

2. Install dependencies

   pipenv install --dev -r dev-requirements.txt && pipenv install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file based on the example with proper settings for your development environment

4. Setup your PostgreSQL user, password and database and make sure it matches your .env file

5. Get into your pipenv, migrate your database, seed your database, and run your flask app

   pipenv shell

   flask db upgrade

   flask seed all

   flask run

6. To run the React App in development, checkout the README inside the react-app directory.

IMPORTANT! psycopg2-binary MUST remain a dev dependency because you can't install it on apline-linux. There is a layer in the Dockerfile that will install psycopg2 (not binary).

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