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This stat is shown on a few of our pages, such as our homepage, the performance page and also a platform admin page and is currently catched for the default TTL of 1 week. I think there is no reason we can't make this only cache once an hour and give slightly more up to date stats which will update more regularly. This mimics the approach and also the TTL choice of 1 hour that has been added for the performance page (although there is no particular bug here to fix, it is just nice to have slightly more up up to date data). Note, the API call only takes about 0.3 seconds at the moment so it is not particularly intensive on the DB to run this more regularly.
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.
NPM packages
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 long term support (LTS) version of Node.
npm install -g n
n lts
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.
To update application dependencies
requirements.txt is generated from the requirements.in in order to pin versions of all nested dependencies. If requirements.in has been changed, run make freeze-requirements to regenerate it.