Backend for Flex Application

To use virtual environment

do pip install pipenv to get pipenv to activate virtual environment: pipenv shell to install dependencies: pipenv install

To make sure sessions are active in view, make sure that GET or POST AJAX requests have credentials included and also csrf token, for example:

To prevent import error from showing up

#type: ignore to ignore the line

To start PostgreSQL

sudo systemctl start postgresql.service

To interact with PostgreSQL

sudo -u postgres psql

To create database

CREATE DATABASE flex;

To create user

CREATE USER admin WITH PASSWORD 'P@ssword1234';

To give superuser

ALTER USER admin WITH SUPERUSER;

To reset active status for all users

python manage.py refreshactivestatus

In production this will be run every 24h by a CRON job

To run backend server: daphne backend.asgi:application exec web python manage.py migrate --noinput

For Docker

Take note that need to put service name under host in order for django to connect to db

To run migrations in the container

docker compose exec web python manage.py migrate --noinput