a-yasinsky / flight-optimizer

Flight Optimization app

This is an CLI, API and web application around Kiwi.com API to find best price per kilometer.

Installing CLI

Navigate to backend folder and run:

pip install --editable .

--editable option upgrades package on code change

Key Dependencies

• Flask is a lightweight backend microservices framework. Flask is required to handle requests and responses.

• Flask-CORS is the extension we'll use to handle cross origin requests from our frontend server.

• Click is an package for creating beautiful command line interfaces.

Running the CLI

To run and test the CLI, execute:

flight-optimizer --from <city> --to <city> [<city> ...]

where: --from specifies the departure city --to specifies a list of potential destination cities

Running web app

To run web server, execute:

python3 webapp.py

Endpoints

POST '/prices/minimum'

• Fetches an object for city with minimum price
• Request Arguments: flightFrom, flightsTo
• Returns: An city object.

{
  'id': 'london_gb',
  'name': 'London',
  'location': {'lon': -0.127758, 'lat': 51.507351},
  'distance': 931.5659317961586,
  'price': 44,
  'price_per_km': 0.05
}

Running the frontend

1. Navigate to backend folder
2. Install node dependencies:

npm install

to upgrade the code:

npm run build

3. Open a browser window and navigate to the index.html file

Possible error

Depends on local environment you may want to change port number at RequestManager constructor.