• Install MongoDB server package on your computer
• Start a mongod instance on your computer. For example, on Linux Ubuntu

    sudo systemctl start mongod // Start the mongod server
    sudo mongod // runs the server

• To get all the dependencies required, you can either install all required dependencies on your computer or (if you're on Linux Ubuntu like I am!) start the virtual environment accompanied with this project

To install directly on your local computer

  // if you are using Python 3
  pip3 install requirements.txt
  pip3 install pymongo[srv]

  // if you are using Python 2
  pip install requirements.text
  pip install pymongo[srv]

• Start the API

    // Assuming you are in project's root directory /NBA-Match-Predictor
    // go into api directory
    cd api
    python3 deploy.py

• If this is your first time starting the API, your local MongoDB database is probably empty.

  • The API is configured to auto-update the database immediately after startup.
  • NOTE the first update will take roughly ~3-4 minutes since it is filling up your local mongoDB database with data from all 5 seasons from 2015-2020.

• Test your API is running by running the main function in client.py which attempts to:

  • Simulate a game between Clippers and Lakers
  • Simulate games on Christmas Day 12/25/2019