Development environment setup.

1. Download and install Docker Desktop (~2m)

https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/

Tip: You can speed up Docker Desktop by configuring it to use more CPU and Memory.

2. Get the .env file from ops team (5m?)

Ask the ops team for the .env local file for setting up all environment variables.

3. Run the makefile (~10m)

The build is fully dockerized.

make docker-local-initial-setup

4. Visit the app

• Visit http://localhost:80

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Tooling setup

Linting and formatting

We use flake8 for linting and black for formatting.

Installing Black

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip
pip install black

Common development commands

Linting

• Lint the front-end

  • make lint-js

• Lint the backend

  • make lint-python

Other

• View logs from Backend

  • docker compose logs -f backend

• Compile requirements.txt

  • pip-compile requirements.in --output-file=requirements.txt

• Check Types

  • mypy --config-file=mypy.ini