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This gives us the performance gains identified in [^1] for the test service described in the spike: - user_template_folders - from 10s to a little above 3s on its own - get_templates_and_folders - from 10s to below 6s on its own In combination, these two uses of caching reduce the test page load time from 10s to a little above 3s. This is slightly higher than in the spike PR due to all the extra work we're doing to generate the "move to" list of folders, as described in a previous commit. The render time is unchanged for services with few folders. We start to see the benefit of this change at around 200 templates + folders, with no evidence that any service will experience worse render times, despite the extra work we're doing from previous commits. [^1]: https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/4251
notifications-admin
GOV.UK Notify admin application - https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/
- Register and manage users
- Create and manage services
- Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
- Show history of notifications
Setting up
Python version
At the moment we run Python 3.9 in production.
NodeJS & NPM
If you don't have NodeJS on your system, install it with homebrew.
brew install node
nvm is a tool for managing different versions of NodeJS. Follow the guidance on nvm's github repository to install it.
Once installed, run the following to switch to the version of NodeJS for this project. If you don't have that version, it should tell you how to install it.
nvm use
environment.sh
In the root directory of the application, run:
echo "
export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT='development'
export FLASK_APP=application.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
export WERKZEUG_DEBUG_PIN=off
"> environment.sh
AWS credentials
To run parts of the app, such as uploading letters, you will need appropriate AWS credentials. See the Wiki for more details.
To run the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
# run the web app
make run-flask
Then visit localhost:6012.
Any Python code changes you make should be picked up automatically in development. If you're developing JavaScript code, run npm run watch to achieve the same.
To test the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
# run all the tests
make test
# continuously run js tests
npm run test-watch
To run a specific JavaScript test, you'll need to copy the full command from package.json.