Local env

[ethanstrominger]

• Fixes #240

What changes did you make?

• moved the .env file from [root]/.env.dev to [root]/app/.env.docker
• scripts and instructions for running the backend in a virtual env

Why did you make the changes (we will use this info to test)?

• It's necessary to move the .env file into the app/ directory for the virtual env
• We want to have a way for devs to run the backend without docker if they needed to

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[ethanstrominger]

pre-commit.ci autofix

[fyliu]

So here I modified the code to satisfy the shellcheck warning.

[fyliu]

@ethanstrominger I've been trying to clean up the commit, but it looks like something is causing the local setup to use sqlite even though only the postgres settings are present.

Update: I tried some more and it looks like the environment variable SQL_ENGINE is not set while others are. I tried setting it in start-local.sh, but it still created an sqlite database rather than try to use postgres.

[fyliu]

I'm not sure if I'm missing a step. Here's what I did

peopledepot/app
❯ cp .env.local-example .env.local                                                                                                                                                     
❯ python -m venv venv
❯ source ../scripts/activate.sh
Sourced OK                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Done                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
❯ pip install -r requirements.txt
...
❯ source ../scripts/start-local.sh
SQL USER people_depot
file = SQL_ENGINE= / SQL_ENGINE= /
Loading environment variables from SQL_ENGINE=
File SQL_ENGINE= not found
If executing locally, copy .env.example.dev to SQL_ENGINE= and edit as needed
ERROR: loadenv.sh failed

[fyliu]

Added some change descriptions to this PR.