A minimal message server for educational purposes
The service is expected to run in tandem with a relational database with locking support.
Invoke make run to build the docker image. When the system is running, direct a browser to
http://localhost:8080 to get an interactive view of the API.
You need to have reasonably recent versions of make and docker-compose installed
in order to run the messages-demo.
The Makefile defines a few targets for common operations.
To run the dev server using a sqlite database, do the following.
> pipenv install
> pipenv shell
> make runserverAs any reader with a keen eye may have already guessed, pipenv is a requirement
for running the dev server.