Mobile App Backend

This is the backend for the react-native mobile job application. All functionality inside this package is as is, and there is no stable release package as of yet.

Getting Started

Following these instructions will get you a working version of the mobile-app-backend running on localhost.

Note: The Authentication Server, and Rest API are two separate applications. You can run one without the other, but will likely run into issues with the client (mobile-app-frontend) without both of them running simultaneously

Create a Virtual Environment (Python 3+)

virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 venv

Activate your Virtual Environment

source venv/bin/activate

Install project requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the authentication server

python authentication-server.py

Run Ngrok (Tunneling, Dev Only; New CLI Tab / Window) for our Authentication Server

ngrok http 5001

Use your ngrok server url inside the frontend-settings.

Prerequisites

Requires Python 3.4+ and a SqlAlchemy compatible database.

Running the tests

Running tests for the authentication server

python -m unittest tests/test_authentication_server.py

Built With (Front & Back)

Expo CLI, React-Native, Flask, Python, SqlAlchemy, Postgres / Sqlite & coffee.