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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+__ARCHIVED:__ this project is not updated anymore, the Starlette API may have changed in these years
+
 # An example Starlette application
 
 Install and run:
@@ -5,8 +7,10 @@ Install and run:
 ```shell
 git clone https://github.com/encode/starlette-example.git
 cd starlette-example
-scripts/install
-scripts/run
+./scripts/install
+./scripts/run
+# to test
+./scripts/test
 ```
 
 Open `http://127.0.0.1:8000/` in your browser:
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rename to app/app.py
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ aiofiles
 jinja2
 starlette
 uvicorn
+# requests and pytest used for testing
+pytest
+requests
diff --git a/scripts/install b/scripts/install
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--- a/scripts/install
+++ b/scripts/install
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-virtualenv venv --python=python3
+python3 -m venv venv
 venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/scripts/run b/scripts/run
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--- a/scripts/run
+++ b/scripts/run
@@ -1 +1 @@
-venv/bin/python app.py
+venv/bin/python3 app/app.py
diff --git a/scripts/test b/scripts/test
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+++ b/scripts/test
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+venv/bin/python3 -m pytest tests
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+++ b/tests/test_main.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+from starlette.responses import HTMLResponse
+from starlette.testclient import TestClient
+import pytest
+
+from app.app import app
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def client():
+    return TestClient(app)
+
+def test_home(client):
+    response = client.get('/')
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert 'mi porta gravida at' in response.content.decode('utf-8')
+
+def test_missing(client):
+    response = client.get('/fake-path')
+    assert response.status_code == 404
+    assert 'Page not found.' in response.content.decode('utf-8')
+