We are starting to see lots of 100.0%s in the current table and we think this looks suspiciously too good so think it is beneficial to change it to be 2dp such that we get a few more non 100.0% values. This will put all the values in to having 2dp, however it will also require the API to have a change to https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/blob/master/app/performance_dashboard/rest.py#L81 where it is currently losing the granularity down to a single decimal place (meaning that if we were really at 99.894% then that would be shown on the page as 99.90% rather than 99.89%). However, I don't think it is a blocker that we get that sorted before this can be merged.
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.