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XPPL/README.md

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XPPL version alt

Library to hold books / knowledge

TO DOs

  • fix adding stacks
  • update requirements
  • generate new requirements.txt and installation process?
  • fix stacks layout
  • remove autocomplete? and training at the start of app
  • update layout navigation

Installation

sudo apt install python3-virtualenv
sudo virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

sudo chmod -R 777 XPPL/

pip3 install flask
pip3 install flask_sqlalchemy
pip3 install marshmallow
pip3 install flask_socketio
pip3 install python-dotenv
pip3 install flask_weasyprint
pip3 install flask_wtf
pip3 install wand
pip3 install PyPDF2
pip3 install requests
pip3 install autocomplete

sudo apt-get install libpangocairo-1.0-0
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

bash init_db.sh 

Install the required dependencies:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Initialise database / Why is this needed again, could be checked in flask?

$ bash init_db.sh

Further install notes (bugs)

  • create the covers folder inside the uploadsfolder

  • don't forget to chmod the uploads and coverfolder ;-)

  • For Mac users -> brew install imagemagick@6 in order to install wand (should not be relevant for debian server install)

Run the program

Run the script in another terminal (from XPPL directory):

python3 run.py

Deploy on server

(this will be added soon)

REST API

Has currently 2 entrypoints:

/api/books GETs all the books in the database

/api/book/id GETs a specific book by its id