Flask API serves movie recommendation.

1. Clone the repo to your local

git clone https://github.com/Team-Tomato/Movie_Recommendation_Backend.git

2. Create or Activate your vitrual environment.

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

3. Install the dependencies from requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Add or modify the .env file according to your local postgres database. Here is the example .env file. Leave the APP_SETTINGS as it is

APP_SETTINGS="config.DevelopmentConfig"
POSTGRES_URL="127.0.0.1"
POSTGRES_USER="postgres"
POSTGRES_PW="password"
POSTGRES_DB="movie_teamtomato"
GITHUB_USER_NAME="Team-Tomato"

5. Create the database in your local with your database name db-name adn start your local database server.
6. Run the following commands to mirate the database.

python manage.py db init            #If prompts error, leave it.
python manage.py db migrate
python manage.py db upgrade

7. Start the server,

python manage.py runserver

8. Try hitting the end points for sample testing.

Note: If your changes adds some dependencies to the system, kindly update the requirements.txt file using pipreqs

pip freeze > requirements.txt