Setup about asciidots-demo-backend

[aaronjanse]

First, thanks for helping!
Seriously, I really appreciate it.

Running the backend

You'd install the requirements in requirements.txt with:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Once you do that, you can run the server via:

python3 app.py

Unless you set the PORT environment variable, this will run on port 5000.

Running the frontend

Clone the frontend repo.

Change the lines where the web socket URL is defined to point to localhost. (Change this back before you make a PR)

After that, you can serve that file on localhost with:

python3 -m http.server

You can now view the frontend at localhost:8000

Once again, thanks for helping

[jpfeiffer16]

Cool, thanks. I'll walk through the steps. No problem, I figure it's a good way to learn some more python and do some JS.

[aaronjanse]

@jpfeiffer16, I think the dropped char problem might have to do with the JS (client-side) parsing.
The way its done is... questionable

[jpfeiffer16]

Ok. I'll start there. Thanks