README.md

backend

Setup... ish lol

0. Install pyenv GIF FROM BOTY

1. Set up poetry! make sure you have poetry installed it is a package manager for python and initialize for the repository. i believe the command is poetry shell but yea just double check maybe need to poetry install first. Might have to install this too plugin

2. Now run the backend using Docker! docker-compose up --build should be good

3. For the first time we need to populate the database. After this initial population the data is persisted using a Docker volume (verify with docker volume ls) after shutting down. To populate there is an ingestion script. You just have to run ingest/ingest.py with the python interpreter from the poetry environment

   HINT (to verify poetry setup):
   > which python
   /Users/<REDACTED>/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/backend-JqeV0JJJ-py3.12/bin/python
   

   The ingestion works by logging in with a special user account and sending POST requests to the /items endpoints to add new clothing items to the database from the jcrew.csv.

That's it. Happy hacking :D

Notes from Taha: I added mkdir -p /app/logs to entrypoint.sh since it was kicking up a fuss. Furthermore, wanted to create the test user since it did not get automatically added. As a result, we had to run docker-compose exec web -it /bin/bash and then this opened up a new sub terminal where I ran python manage.py create_test_user. TO clear volumes - docker rm volume backend_pgdata This one worked better - docker compose down --volumes