f19-health-calendar

A calendar app to help schedule your life.

Teams (Subject to change/flexibility)

Front-End:

• Larry
• Lisa
• Kelly

Back-End:

• Tejna
• Danny
• Medha

Setting up

Cloning the Repo

If you haven't used GitHub before, it's not too hard to get started.

To get the repo onto the computer, run the following command in your terminal/command prompt in your home directory:

git clone https://github.com/txconvergent/f19-health-calendar.git

After finishing running it, you should have a new folder in your home directory called f19-health-calendar/. Go into it and you should see the contents of this repo.

Installing the stuff

For our project, we need to be able to use React Native and Flask from Python. I'll go over how to install the dependencies required for both.

Node.js / React Native

We went over this in meeting, but it's good to review.

1. First, download both. Get Node.js and NPM here, as they're both bundled together. Check if you have both by running the commands, node -v and npm -v to check their versions.

2. Now, we need to install Expo, a tool used to compile, build, and test React Native Apps for development. Run npm install -g expo-cli to install it (the -g flag means install this globally onto the system for use everywhere).

   2a. If an error pops up, you might not have permissions to install an npm package globally. Do the command: sudo npm install -g expo-cli where prepending sudo allows you to run things with root permissions.

3. Because the repository is already cloned, we're done! Open the client folder with your terminal and run

npm start

to start the expo environment, which will allow you to run the app on your phone using the Expo app on the app store.

Python / Flask

1. If you don't already have Python 3.7 installed, get it here and install. Pip, the Python package manager equivalent to NPM for Node.js should be automatically with Python 3.7 as well.

2. Now, we need to install pipenv, a module that will allow us to use local repository dependencies (modules that we download, like Flask, that we store locally in our repository that our program depends on) and run our Flask app. Run the following to install:

pip install pipenv

3. To run the flask app, first do

pipenv shell

to launch pipenv's virtual environment. In there, you then type

flask run

to run the Flask app. Type localhost:5000 in the browser and you should see the app run with a "Hello world!" message.