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.

Further docs

• Working with static assets
• Updating dependencies