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It looks like, by default, Flask no longer makes full URLs, for example `https://example.com/path`. Instead it does `/path`. This will still work fine, and if anything is better because it reduces the number of bytes of HTML we are sending. It won’t mean that requests go over `http` instead of `https` without the protocol because we set the appropriate HSTS header here:0c57da7781/ansible/roles/paas-proxy/templates/admin.conf.j2 (L11)This commit changes all our tests to reflect that URLs no longer have the protocol and domain in them. `_external=True` is Flask’s way of saying whether a URL should be generated with the domain and protocol (`True`) or without it (`False`). Again, I can’t find the changelog or diff where this was introuduced, but if you’d like to go spelunking then here’s a starting point:50374e3cfe/src/flask/helpers.py (L192)
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.