Megawapp
Turning Megawatt into an app
As of right now, this takes Nick Montfort’s highly idiosyncratic Megawatt code and tries to turn it into, first, a traditional python package, then a Flask server that uses that package code to deliver Megawatt on its frontend.
Getting set up
The best practice for setting up this project is to ensure Anaconda is installed, then creating and activating a megawatt conda environment from the environment.yml file in root:
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate megawatt
Modulizing
We’re following the traditional python module structure described here.
Right now, we’re only using chapter 1 of Megawatt. The code that is reused throughout the primary script has been moved to the helpers.py file, while all the code that directly writes the chapter is in the megawatt.py file.
Server-making
We’re working with a melange of these two guides:
How to package and distribute python applications
To start the server, run python run.py in the terminal and then navigate to localhost:5000 in your browser of choice.
Right now, the server automatically serves the title when we go to root / and the first chapter when we go to localhost:5000/chapter-1