DiscuText API

Written with Flask and deployed with Zappa.

Getting Started

Requirements

• Python 3.9
• (Optional) direnv

For deploying:

Ensure you have an AWS_PROFILE=discutext-api-zappa-deploy configured with the appropriate permissions for AWS API Gateway + Lambda + S3.

Developing

Run ./scripts/setup to create a virtualenv and install dependencies into it.

If using direnv, run direnv allow, otherwise activate virtualenv with source .venv/bin/activate.

Start the service with ./scripts/server. The API server will be available at http://localhost:5050

Deploying

Run zappa to deploy:

zappa update production

For initial deployment, instead run zappa deploy production.

Shutting Down

To undeploy the service and cleanup the AWS account:

• zappa undeploy production
• Delete AWS API Gateway Custom Domain Name
• Delete AWS CloudFront Distribution for Custom Domain Name
• Delete AWS ACM Certificate in us-east-1
• Delete AWS Route 53 Hosted Zone