Mentorship System (Backend)

Mentorship System is an application that allows women in tech to mentor each other, on career development topics, through 1:1 relations for a certain period. This is the Backend REST API for the Mentorship System.

This API is being used by 3 frontend projects currently being developed:

Table of Contents

Features
Setup and run
Documentation
Contributing
Branches
Contact
License

Features

Login and register a new user
Create a user profile, view and edit user profiles
Change user password, refresh jwt tokens
Create relation between two users for a fixed period of time
Both mentor and mentee in a relation can create tasks
Assign and remove admin roles to users and list all admins
List all the relationships of a given user
List details of current, past and pending mentorship relations
Create a new task in a mentorship relation if the specified user is already involved in it.
Retrieve and delete tasks from mentorship relation
Task comment functionalities like create a task comment, get task comments using a task id.
Get statistics of a user like Pending Requests, Accepted Requests, Rejected Requests, Completed Relations, Cancelled Relations and upto 3 recent achievements

Setup and run

To setup the project locally read these wiki pages and follow the instructions:

Run app in Windows

The project runs on Python 3.

Create a virtual environment:
```
virtualenv venv --python=python3
```
Activate the virtual environment: For Git Bash Users:
```
source ./venv/Scripts/activate
```
For Windows Command Line Users:
```
venv\Scripts\activate
```
Install all the dependencies in requirements.txt file:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Make sure you create .env using .env.template and update the values of corresponding environment variables or make sure you exported the following environment variables:

export FLASK_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG=<local-or-dev-or-test-or-prod-or-stag>
export SECRET_KEY=<your-secret-key>
export SECURITY_PASSWORD_SALT=<your-security-password-salt>
export MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER=<mail-default-sender>
export MAIL_SERVER=<mail-server>
export APP_MAIL_USERNAME=<app-mail-username>
export APP_MAIL_PASSWORD=<app-mail-password>
export MOCK_EMAIL=<True-or-False>

If you're testing any environment other than "local", then you have to also set these other variables:

export DB_TYPE=<database_type>
export DB_USERNAME=<database_username>
export DB_PASSWORD=<database_password>
export DB_ENDPOINT=<database_endpoint>
export DB_NAME=<database_name>

Run the app:
```
python run.py
```
Navigate to http://localhost:5000 in your browser
When you are done using the app, deactivate the virtual environment:
```
deactivate
```

Run app in Linux

The project runs on Python 3.

Create a virtual enviorntment:
```
virtualenv venv
```
Activate the virtual environment:
```
source venv/bin/activate
```
Install all the dependencies in requirements.txt file:
```
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```
Make sure you create .env using .env.template and update the values of corresponding environment variables. Make sure you exported the following environment variables if you didn't adapt .env.template in the .env file:

export FLASK_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG=<local-or-dev-or-test-or-prod-or-stag>
export SECRET_KEY=<your-secret-key>
export SECURITY_PASSWORD_SALT=<your-security-password-salt>
export MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER=<mail-default-sender>
export MAIL_SERVER=<mail-server>
export APP_MAIL_USERNAME=<app-mail-username>
export APP_MAIL_PASSWORD=<app-mail-password>
export MOCK_EMAIL=<True-or-False>

If you're testing any environment other than "local", then you have to also set these other variables in the .env file.

export DB_TYPE=<database_type>
export DB_USERNAME=<database_username>
export DB_PASSWORD=<database_password>
export DB_ENDPOINT=<database_endpoint>
export DB_NAME=<database_name>

Use: printenv to print the environment variables and check all configurations.

Run the app with python run.py or:
```
export FLASK_APP=run.py
flask run
```
Navigate to http://localhost:5000 or the current server in which you are running(will be shown when app is running) in your browser.
When you are done using the app, deactivate the virtual environment:
```
deactivate
```

or use:

source deactivate

Run with docker

Make sure you exported the following environment variables to .env file

Build docker image

docker build -t mentorship-backend:latest .

Deploy Docker container ports must be mapped to the host machine port using '--publish' so they're visible.
```
docker run --env "FLASK_APP=run.py" --publish 5000:5000 mentorship-backend:latest
```

Run tests

To run the unitests run the following command in the terminal (while the virtual environment is activated):

python -m unittest discover tests

Auto-formatting with black

We use Black to format code automatically so that we don't have to worry about clean and readable code. To install Black:

pip install black

To run black:

black .

Sorting imports with isort

We use isort to sort imports alphabetically, and automatically separated into sections and by type. To install isort:

pip install isort

To run isort:

isort . --profile=black

Automate auto-formatting tools with pre-commit

We use pre-commit to check formatting before every commit message. To install pre-commit:

pip install pre-commit

To set up the git hook scripts:

pre-commit install

Documentation

Documentation for the project is hosted here. We use Docusaurus for maintaining the documentation of the project.

You can learn more about this project through the documentation in the docs folder and on our Wiki.

Language: Python 3
Framework: Flask
Flask Extensions: Flask-RESTX, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-JWT-Extended, Flask-Mail

Here are some links to documentation for this project:

How to use Backend Swagger UI and test PR guide contains a few resources for you to understand how to use the Swagger user interface provided by this app.
Features Overview has a high level understanding of the features this application has.
Future ideas for the project.
Troubleshoot guide contains common isssues other contributors may run into in their setup.
Quality Assurance test cases has test cases for each endpoint we have which you can use to learn about how each feature should work.
CI/CD Process which explains the processes and tools involved in deploying new code.
Code Organisation which explains the code organisation and architecture within the repository.
User Authentication which is JSON Web Token (JWT) based and tells about the user authentication in the application.

Understand more about our technical decisions made along with this project development in Technical Decisions Wiki page.

Contributing

Please read our Contributing guidelines, Code of Conduct and Reporting Guidelines

Please follow our Commit Message Style Guide and Coding Standards while sending PRs.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these people (emoji key):

_{Isabel Costa}
🚧

_{Vaishnavi Joshi}
🚧 🎨

_{Aditya Kurkure}
💻 🚧 ⚠️

_{Kapil Bansal}
💻 🚧 ⚠️

_{Gauri V. Nair}
💻 🚧

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Branches

The repository has the following permanent branches:

master This contains the code which has been released.
develop This contains the latest code. All the contributing PRs must be sent to this branch. When we want to release the next version of the app, this branch is merged into the master branch. This is the branch that is used in the deployed version of the app on Heroku.
bit This branch is for MS-backend version specific to BridgeInTech project. All the contributing PRs related to BIT-MS integration issue must be sent to this branch.
IMPORTANT!! If this is your first time setting up the BridgeInTech project, please DO NOT RUN the MS backend server from this branch BEFORE you run the BIT backend server. Failing to do this will mess up the postgres db schemas used in BIT project. More instruction on setting up the BridgeInTech project can be found here.

Contact

You can reach the maintainers and our community on AnitaB.org Open Source Zulip. If you are interested in contributing to the mentorship system, we have a dedicated stream for this project #mentorship-system, where you can ask questions and interact with the community, join with us!

License

Mentorship System is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Learn more about it in the LICENSE file.

anitab-org / mentorship-backend

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