NewLife

NewLife is a platform (web and API based) which provides all sorts of information about expecting mothers and mothers with new born child. It will act as a single source of varied information. Presently it has features for showing prenatal and postnatal information. It can be considered as an effective content management system in itself. Also it has feature for writing blogs which can be helpful for mothers. Admin can add new information, month wise which may prove to be useful for mothers.

Stack used

Flask : Webframework in Python
Postgres : Database
flask-admin : For craeting admin
flask-login : For creating auth system
SQLAlchemy : ORM
gunicorn : Web Server
Heroku : Deployment
summernote.js: Rich Text edittor
Bootstrap3
AngularJS

Building the app locally

The app has been developed on Ubuntu 16.04 platform. The following instructions having given keeping Ubuntu OS in mind. However with some changes the app can easily be setup on other platforms like Arch or rpm based systems

Please follow the below given instructions to build the app locally

Getting the source code

Clone this repository using https://github.com/djmgit/NewLife.git

Installing dependencies

This project is developed using python3. Make sure you have python3 installed.
Open the repository in your terminal. Make sure you are in the root of the repo. Execute the following-

pip install -r requirements.txt

This will install all the dependencies for this app.

If you encounter permission issues, please execute the above command with superuser access. For debian based systems like Ubuntu the command will be-

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

You may use virtualenv for building this app if you do not want to install dependencies in your global space.

Installing Database

Execute the following to install Postgres on your system-

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

This will install Postgres on your system. Next you need to create a database where you will be creating tables for this project. By default Postgres creates a role (user) named after your system username (the username by which you are currently logged in) and a database names postgres. In order to create a new database and get familiar with Postgres follow this article- Setting up Postgres onn Ubuntu

After Postgres is up and running you will have to apply migrations for your app and create tables. For this execute the following from the project root.

python app/manage.py db init
python app/manage.py db migrate
python app/manage.py db upgrade

This will create tables and apply migrations.

Running the app

Finally run the app using the following:

python app/main.py

This will start the development server at 127.0.0.1 (localhost) and port 5000

Now visit the following URL in your browser:

htttp://127.0.0.1:5000

The fron end has been tested on Google Chrome and Firefox

Using the app

You can view the **Prenatal instructions and articles** in the prebirth section. These can be updated and maintained admin

You can view the **Postnatal instructions and articles** in the postbirth section. These can be updated and maintained admin

You can view the **blogs** in the blogs section. These can be published by anyone who has an account

You can write **blogs** using the Rich Text edittor. If the Rich Text editor does not show up, make sure you enable script loading in the upper right corner of your browser's search bar.

The entire app is API based, and so it acn be easily used on mobile devices with minimum performance issues.

Admin system

NewLife has got a functional admin system. Admin can update app content, update prenatal and postnatal content, edit blogs (to remove any unwanted conent).

Admin system can be found at : https://newlifegenesis.herokuapp.com/admin/ For testing purpose: Email: admin@admin.com Password: admin123

Use the above credentials to explore the admin system.

APIs

NewLife is API based. That is, the back end, exposes most if its features and contents as REST APIs.

To view particular prebirth article, use th following endpoints: https://newlifegenesis.herokuapp.com/api/prebirth_articles/<month_no>
To view particular postbirth article, use the following endpoint https://newlifegenesis.herokuapp.com/api/postbirth_articles/<month_no>
To view all the blog titles and their id, use the following endpoint: https://newlifegenesis.herokuapp.com/api/blogs/blog_titles
To view a particular blog, use the following endpoint: https://newlifegenesis.herokuapp.com/api/blogs/get_blog/<blog_id>

The present app is just prototype of the idea proposed, the content is dummy content used from random web articles, the basic target is to describe the idea using this prototype

Future Milestones

A number of ideas could not be implemented due to time constraints and other issues. Those are listed below. The main idea of this project is to create a single common platform to help mothers and their new born by providing some valuable data and services.

A question answer system. Users (mothers) will throw questions and get almost immidiete response. This can be be done by creating a rich knowledge base, and taking help of NLP and chat bot technologies which are prevalent.
The above idea can be extended to social media chatbots which will be more helpful.
A feed wall, like popular social media platforms, where users can ask questions and other users can post answers.
A location based service which will provide important information like nearest doctors, hospitals and other medical services.

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