Loadsmart Weather Challenge

Docker

Before start building containers you need to set your API keys to environment variables. It is important, without valid API keys the application can not connect with the services.

To do that, you need to update the docker-compose.yml, change the lines that represents this environment variables:

environment:
  - DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///example.sqlite
  - GEOCODE_API_KEY=add-your-geo-api-key
  - WEATHER_API_KEY=add-your-weather-api-key

With your environment variables set, run the following command.

docker-compose up

When the process is finished, and running try to access this URL http://localhost:8080/

1. Set your local development environment

Environment Variables

Warning: Remember to hydrate the environment variables with your API Keys.

export FLASK_APP=api
export FLASK_ENV=development
export DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///example.sqlite
export GEOCODE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key
export WEATHER_API_KEY=your-weather-api-key

Activate Virtual Env

Python 3 version is required.

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Execute Flask Server

Open a new terminal to this server and keep it opened

flask run

3. Execute Vue.js server

Open a new terminal to this server and keep it opened

cd web
npm install
npm run serve

open: http://localhost:8080/