Flowback

A liquid democracy engine

The Flowback backend is baded on the python django package.

Install

After cloning this repo, create a virtual environment:

cd flowback-backend
python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

Then install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup

Add your DJANGO_SECRET to environmental variables

Apply migrations

python manage.py migrate

Create a superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

Note: remember these details to sign into the admin portal

Running

When starting up the backend be sure you have activated the virtual environment:

source env/bin/activate

Run the server:

python manage.py runserver

Admin

Go to your local endpoint:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

and log in. This is where you can keep an eye on things.

API

TODO need to get docs on how to interact with these endpoints

These are the API urls:

default_router.register("user", UserViewSet, basename="user")
default_router.register("me", CurrentUserViewSet, basename="me")
default_router.register("user_group", UserGroupViewSet, basename="user_group")
default_router.register("group_poll", GroupPollViewSet, basename="group_poll")
default_router.register("location", LocationViewSet, basename="location")
default_router.register("friend", FriendsViewSet, basename="friend")
default_router.register('group_chat', GroupChatViewSet, basename='group_chat')