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# US Notify Admin
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Cloned from the brilliant work of the team at [GOV.UK Notify ](https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin ), cheers!
US Notify admin application - https://notifications-admin.app.cloud.gov (contact team for access)
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- Register and manage users
- Create and manage services
- Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
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- Show history of notifications
Use a Node-based tools for handling assets
…or how to move a bunch of things from a bunch of different places into
`app/static`.
There are three main reasons not to use Flask Assets:
- It had some strange behaviour like only
- It was based on Ruby SASS, which is slower to get new features than libsass,
and meant depending on Ruby, and having the SASS Gem globally installed—so
you’re already out of being a ‘pure’ Python app
- Martyn and I have experience of doing it this way on Marketplace, and we’ve
ironed out the initial rough patches
The specific technologies this introduces, all of which are Node-based:
- Gulp – like a Makefile written in Javascript
- NPM – package management, used for managing Gulp and its related dependencies
- Bower – also package management, and the only way I can think to have
GOV.UK template as a proper dependency
…speaking of which, GOV.UK template is now a dependency. This means it can’t be
modified at all (eg to add a global `#content` wrapper), so every page now
inherits from a template that has this wrapper. But it also means that we have a
clean upgrade path when the template is modified.
Everything else (toolkit, elements) I’ve kept as submodules but moved them to a
more logical place (`app/assets` not `app/assets/stylesheets`, because they
contain more than just SASS/CSS).
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## QUICK START
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NOTE: Set up the [notifications-api repo ](https://github.com/18F/notifications-api ) locally first, you'll need that docker network and a functioning api to make use of this repo.
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```
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# create .env file as instructed below
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# download vscode and install the Remote-Containers plug-in from Microsoft
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# make sure your docker daemon is running
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# Using the command pallette (cmd+shift+p), search "Remote Containers: Open folder in project"
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# choose devcontainer-admin folder, after reload, hit "show logs" in bottom-right
# logs should complete shortly after running gulp.js and compiling front-end files
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# Check vscode panel > ports, await green dot, open a new terminal and run the web server
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make run-flask
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```
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Visit [localhost:6012 ](http://localhost:6012 )
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NOTE: any .py code changes you make should be picked up automatically in development. If you're developing JavaScript code, open another vscode terminal and run `npm run watch` to achieve the same.
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## To test the application
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From a terminal within the running devcontainer:
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```
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# run all the tests
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make test
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# continuously run js tests
npm run test-watch
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```
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To run a specific JavaScript test, you'll need to copy the full command from `package.json` .
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## Further docs [STILL UK DOCS]
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- [Working with static assets ](docs/static-assets.md )
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- [JavaScript documentation ](https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-manuals/wiki/JavaScript-Documentation )
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- [Updating dependencies ](https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-manuals/wiki/Dependencies )