Lantic

• View live @ https://lantic.netlify.com/ on mobile device

  • For desktop: set viewing device to be iPhone X, in Chrome devtools it's the button on the top left corner

• To get frontend up and running (locally):

  • Install node
  • install yarn on your pc/mac (yarn)
    • choose version 1.22.4 (cos yarn 2 may have issues with the code)
  • change into the frontend directory: cd frontend
  • run yarn in command line, this will take a while as it downloads and installs all dependencies
  • then run yarn start to get going...
    • Runs the app in the development mode.
    • Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
    • The page will reload if you make edits.
    • You will also see any lint errors in the console.

• To get backend up and running (locally):

  • Get a Google API key with permissions for Directions API
  • Create backend/.env file with property MAPS_API_KEY=X where X is your API key
  • change into the backend directory: cd backend
  • install virtual environment manager:
    • MacOs/Linux: python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv
    • Windows: py -m pip install --user virtualenv
  • create virtual environment:
    • MacOs/Linux: virtualenv env OR python3 -m venv env
    • Windows: py -m venv env
  • activate the virtual python3 environment:
    • MacOS/Linux: source env/bin/activate
    • Windows: .\env\Scripts\activate
  • install dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  • run app with: python3 app.py
  • in order to close the (activated) python3 environment: deactivate
  • if nothing works: visit