notifications-admin

GOV.UK Notify admin application.

Features of this application

• Register and manage users
• Create and manage services
• Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
• Show history of notifications

First-time setup

Brew is a package manager for OSX. The following command installs brew:

    /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Languages needed

• Python 3.4
• Node 5.0.0 or greater
• npm 3.0.0 or greater

    brew install node

NPM is Node's package management tool. n is a tool for managing different versions of Node. The following installs n and uses the latest version of Node.

    npm install -g n
    n latest
    npm rebuild node-sass

The app runs within a virtual environment. We use mkvirtualenv for easier working with venvs

    pip install virtualenvwrapper
    mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3 notifications-admin

Install dependencies and build the frontend assets:

    workon notifications-admin
    ./scripts/bootstrap.sh

Rebuilding the frontend assets

If you want the front end assets to re-compile on changes, leave this running in a separate terminal from the app

    npm run watch

Create a local environment.sh file containing the following:

echo "
export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT='development'
export FLASK_APP=application.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
export WERKZEUG_DEBUG_PIN=off
"> environment.sh

AWS credentials

Your aws credentials should be stored in a folder located at ~/.aws. Follow Amazon's instructions for storing them correctly

Running the application

    workon notifications-admin
    ./scripts/run_app.sh

Then visit localhost:6012