Platform

The Labs Platform is the back-end interface to the ecosystem that facilitates the organization’s:

1. Accounts Engine
2. Cross-Product Resources
3. Organizational Information

Installation

1. Configure environment variables (e.g. .env) containing:

DATABASE_URL=mysql://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/NAME
SECRET_KEY=secret
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=Platform.settings.production
SENTRY_URL=https://pub@sentry.example.com/product
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME

1. Run using docker: docker run -d pennlabs/platform

Documentation

Routes are defined in /pennlabs/urls.py and subsequent app folders in the form of */urls.py. Account/authorization related scripts are located in accounts/ and Penn Labs related scripts are located in org/.

Documentation about individual endpoints is available through the documentation/ route when the Django app is running.

Installation

You will need to start both the backend and the frontend to do Platform development.

Backend

Running the backend requires Python 3.

To run the server, cd to the folder where you cloned platform. Then run:

• cd backend

Setting up psycopg2 (this is necessary if you want to be able to modify
dependencies, you can revisit later if not)

• Mac
  • $ brew install postgresql
  • $ brew install openssl
  • $ brew unlink openssl && brew link openssl --force
  • $ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
  • $ export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/lib"
  • $ export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/include"
• Windows
  • $ apt-get install gcc python3-dev libpq-dev

Now, you can run

• $ pipenv install to install Python dependencies. This may take a few
  minutes. Optionally include the --dev argument if you are installing locally
  for development. If you skipped installing psycopg2 earlier, you might see
  an error with locking — this is expected!
• $ pipenv shell
• $ ./manage.py migrate OR $ python3 manage.py migrate
• $ ./manage.py populate_users OR $ python3 manage.py populate_users (in development,
  to populate the database with dummy data)
• $ ./manage.py runserver OR $ python3 manage.py runserver

Frontend

Running the frontend requires Node.js and Yarn.

1. Enter the frontend directory with a new terminal window. Don’t kill your backend server!
2. Install dependencies using yarn install in the project directory.
3. Run application using yarn dev.
4. Access application at http://localhost:3000.

Development

Click Login to log in as a test user. The ./manage.py populate_users command creates a test user for you with username bfranklin and password test. Go to /api/admin to login to this account.