Pangea Network Admin Dashboard - Backend

To view latest staging version, visit https://pangea-backend.herokuapp.com/

To run this code locally:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/elixirlabsinc/pangeanetwork.git

   cd pangeanetwork

Backend setup

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   virtualenv env -p python3

   source env/bin/activate

3. Install requirements:

   pip install -r 'requirements.txt'

4. Run the application:

   gunicorn 'app:create_app()'

Frontend setup

5. To run the frontend, see pangea network frontend codebase

Testing with Africa's Talking API

1. Install ngrok

2. With backend server running, run ./ngrok http 5000 in a new tab

3. From your Africa's Talking account, navigate to SMS > SMS Callback URLs > Incoming Messages and fill in the forwarding url from ngrok in the URL form.

4. From your Africa's Talking account, navigate to Settings > API Key to generate an API Key. Store this in your local environment variables as AT_API_KEY.

5. Open the Sandbox by clicking on Launch Simulator from your Africa's Talking account and there you can test sending/receiving SMS messages to/from your local running instance of the app.

Contributing

If you see an open issue you want to work on, either assign it to yourself or comment that you are starting to work on it. Check out a new branch from master with the ticket number and a brief description of the ticket such as [ticket number]_add_transactions_endpoint. Once you have finished your changes, push them to your remote branch and open up a Merge Request back to the master branch.