Back end for PennApps F17 project

• GET /user/<username>
  • Retrieves information about user <username> in JSON format.
• PUT /user/<username>
  • Updates informaton about user <username> from the data in the request body.
• POST /user/
  • Creates a new user on the server from the data in the request body.

To setup virtualenv with Python 3.x, navigate to the root directory of this repo and type:

$ virtualenv -p python3 .

Activate virtualenv:

$ source bin/activate

Deactivate virtualenv:

$ deactivate

Note: virtualenv creates a bunch of directories, which have been added to .gitignore. Do not remove them from .gitignore.

To add a dependency, simply run pip3 install <dependency_name> from within the virtualenv.

Export the list of dependencies:

$ pip3 freeze -r requirements.txt > requirements.txt

Install or update dependencies from the list:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Warning: Do not remove requirements.txt from .gitignore!

Before you run it, you must set the FLASK_APP environment variable. Within virtualenv, run:

$ export FLASK_APP=main.py

Then, you can run $ flask run. This works even if you deactivate and re-activate the environment.