Backend/django

[mjaquiery]

Major update.

Key features:

• Moved backend over from Flask to Django
  • Streamlines database interaction
  • Provides a more reliable framework for code
• Converted frontend to TypeScript
  • More robust code
• Separated Harvester code from backend code
  • Harvesters now rely on API endpoints rather than direct database writes
• Updated documentation throughout

Missing features (todo):

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• Frontend tests
• Cleaning out old frontend files

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• Entity creation logic should be handled by Django Serializers rather than Views
• Harvester ENV stuff no longer handled
  • Mostly matters for being able to specify a base path; could be done in config/Harvester view
• Updated Entity Relationship Diagram

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• Python API client code
  • Should be automatically generated via swagger codegen API/docker container, perhaps on demand?

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• Migration from old database

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• API token management (including long-term tokens for scripts)
• User management (reset password, update email?)

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• Profiling important things
  • Data upload
  • Data download