Frontend supplier application for the digital marketplace.

• Python app, based on the Flask framework

Install Virtualenv

sudo easy_install virtualenv

Create a virtual environment

virtualenv ./venv

Set the required environment variables (for dev use local API instance if you have it running):

export DM_DATA_API_URL=http://localhost:5000
export DM_DATA_API_AUTH_TOKEN=<auth_token>

source ./venv/bin/activate

Install new Python dependencies with pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

Front-end code (both development and production) is compiled using Node and Gulp.

You need Node, minimum version of 0.10.0, which will also get you NPM, Node's package management tool.

To check the version you're running, type:

node --version

To install the required Node modules, type:

npm install

NPM is used for all frontend build tasks. The commands available are:

• npm run frontend-build:development (compile the frontend files for development)
• npm run frontend-build:production (compile the frontend files for production)
• npm run frontend-build:watch (watch all frontend files & rebuild when anything changes) FAILED
• npm run frontend-install (install all non-NPM dependancies)

Note: npm run frontend-install is run automatically as a post-install task when you run npm install.

./scripts/run_tests.sh

To run the Supplier Frontend App for local development you can use the convenient run script, which sets the required environment variables to defaults if they have not already been set:

./scripts/run_app.sh

The script is a wrapper around python application.py runserver so all the options available there can also be sent in. For example, to set the host:

./scripts/run_app.sh -h '0.0.0.0'

More generally, the command to start the server is:

python application.py runserver

The supplier frontend runs on port 5003. Use the app at http://127.0.0.1:5003/

To use feature flags, check out the documentation in (the README of) digitalmarketplace-utils.