RIT COVID Poller

Endpoints

• /api/v0/latest - retrieve the current state of the dashboard in JSON format
• /api/v0/history - retrieve all the prior states of the dashboard

Setup

Locally running this application should be pretty simple.

1. (optional) Use a virtualenv
   • Why use a venv? It isolates your dependencies and helps prevent version conflicts with other projects or system dependencies.
   1. python3 -m venv venv will create a venv in a directory named venv
   2. source ./venv/bin/activate will activate the venv
2. Install dependencies

• pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the app

• gunicorn poller:APP --bind=localhost:5000

4. Scream because the database won't work because that's hard and I wrote this really poorly (rewrite soon(tm))
5. Visit localhost:5000 in your web browser.

Linting

This demo uses pylint. Travis CI will automatically run pylint on commits and PRs, but you can also run pylint manually, using pylint poller. The pylint_quotes plugin is loaded by the pylintrc and will ensure standardised quotation mark formats.