interactive-art

Development

Run Frontend locally on port 8080

npm install
npm run serve

Go to http://localhost:8080/

Run Backend locally on port 5000

pip install -r requirements.txt
cd api
python app.py

Go to http://localhost:5000/

Backend Caching

To speed up the backend we currently have file system caching implemented. This makes sure that anything already computed is retrieved from the cache folder and not computed again

• results will be cached forever in the filesystem unless cleared
• to clear the cache run python clear_cache.py in the api folder
• to clear the cache on the server see these instructions

Putting Changes Into Production

• Run npm run build
• If you added any Python dependencies for the api run pip freeze > requirements.txt from the root of the project
• Commit and push your changes (including the dist folder and requirements.txt)
• Submit a pull request to the main brain
• To make changes live at https://interactiveart.web.illinois.edu those with cPanel access need to follow these steps

Note on API location on server

• When running the frontend locally, requests are automatically proxied to the backend running locally (see above)
• Once deployed, the frontend automatically makes requests to https://backend.interactiveart.web.illinois.edu as specified in the .env file