Setup

To setup this project:

1. Setup a firebase project
2. Copy the Firebase JSON configuration into two files
   1. backend/key.json
   2. frontend/firebaseConfig.json
3. While in the frontend folder run npm install
4. While in the backend folder run pip install -r req.txt
5. In the frontend folder add a file named .env and copy REACT_APP_API_URL=url where url is the web address of the backend

After following these steps you should be able to run both the frontend and backend.

1. To run the fronted on a local server, change your directory to the frontend folder and run npm start
2. To run the backend on a local server, change your directory to the root of the project and run
   1. python .\backend\app.py for windows
   2. python ./backend/app.py for Linux and Mac

Steps to run backend in development mode

mac - export FLASK_DEBUG=develop    
windows - set FLASK_DEBUG=develop