ebenezernu / gomerce_backend

This is the backend for gomerce ALX-T project

Flask API Server

e-commerce gommerce enhanced with JWT authentication, SqlAlchemy, SQLite persistence and deployment scripts via Docker. It has all the ready-to-use bare minimum essentials.

Features:

• Up-to-date dependencies
• API Definition - the unified API structure implemented by this server
• Simple, intuitive codebase - can be extended with ease.
• Flask-restX, Flask-jwt_extended
• Docker, Unitary tests

✨ Quick Start in Docker

Get the code

$ git clone https://github.com/Ajioz/gomerce_backend.git
$ cd gomerce_backend

Start the app in Docker

$ docker-compose up --build

The API server will start using the PORT 5000.

✨ Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Project Structure
3. Modules
4. Testing

✨ How to use the code

Step #1 - Clone the project

$ git clone https://github.com/Ajioz/gomerce_backend.git
$ cd gomerce_backend

Step #2 - create virtual environment using python3 and activate it (keep it outside our project directory)

## Virtualenv modules installation (Unix based systems)
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$

##Virtualenv modules installation (Windows based systems starting from python 3)
Create a virtual environment by running "python -m venv env"
Activate the virtual environment by running: ". env/scripts/activate"

Step #3 - Install dependencies in virtual env

$ pip install -r requirements.txt <-- ### Mac users
Install the dependencies by running "pip install -r requirements.txt" <-- ### Windows users

Step #4 - setup flask command for our app

$ export FLASK_APP=run.py
$ export FLASK_ENV=development

For Windows-based systems

$ (Windows CMD) set FLASK_APP=run.py
$ (Windows CMD) set FLASK_ENV=development
$
$ (Powershell) $env:FLASK_APP = ".\run.py"
$ (Powershell) $env:FLASK_ENV = "development"

Step #5 - start test APIs server at localhost:5000

$ flask run

Use the API via POSTMAN or Swagger Dashboard.

✨ Project Structure

api-server-flask/
├── api
│   ├── config.py
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── models.py
│   └── routes.py
├── Dockerfile
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── run.py
└── tests.py

✨ API

For a fast set up, use this POSTMAN file: attached in the root folder api.postman_collection.json

Register - api/users/register (POST request)

POST api/users/register
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "username":"yourUsername",
    "password":"yourPassword",
    "email":"yourEmail"
}

Login - api/users/login (POST request)

POST /api/users/login
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "password":"yourPassword",
    "email":"yourEmail"
}

Logout - api/users/logout (POST request)

POST api/users/logout
Content-Type: application/json
authorization: JWT_TOKEN (returned by Login request)

{
    "token":"JWT_TOKEN"
}

✨ Testing

Run tests using pytest tests.py

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