weather_app

Get weather forecast for next 5 days for a given city

Quick Start

Run the application:

make run

And open it in the browser at http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Prerequisites

This is built to be used with Python 3. Update Makefile to switch to Python 2 if needed.

Some Flask dependencies are compiled during installation, so gcc and Python header files need to be present. For example, on Ubuntu:

apt install build-essential python3-dev

Development environment and release process

• create virtualenv with Flask and weather_app installed into it (latter is installed in develop mode which allows modifying source code directly without a need to re-install the app): make venv

• run development server in debug mode: make run; Flask will restart if source code is modified

• run tests: make test (see also: Testing Flask Applications)

• create source distribution: make sdist (will run tests first)

• to remove virtualenv and built distributions: make clean

• to add more python dependencies: add to install_requires in setup.py

• to modify configuration in development environment: edit file settings.cfg; this is a local configuration file and it is ignored by Git - make sure to put a proper configuration file to a production environment when deploying

Deployment

Build - make sdist Install - pip install weather_app.tar.gz

Ensure that configuration file exists and WEATHER_APP_SETTINGS environment variable points to it, ensure that user has access to the working directory to create and write log files in it

Update OpenWeatherMAP "API_KEY" in 'weather_app/default_setting.py'

Usage

Refer API.md document