WeThePeople

Getting Started

To run the iOS app:

Navigate to the "frontend" folder and do:

brew install yarn
yarn install
cd ios/
sudo gem install cocoapods
pod install
open WeThePeople.xcworkspace
cd ..
yarn start
brew cask install fastlane
export PATH="$HOME/.fastlane/bin:$PATH"
match init

Building WeThePeople on Your iPhone

1. Find UUID of your iPhone by visiting http://get.udid.io/ on Safari on your phone.

2. I (Dan) will need to run fastlane run register_device, follow prompts, then match development --force

3. On your computer, run match development --force to download the updated certs

Adding Friends to TestFlight

To add friends who want to test the iOS app:

1. Go to https://itunesconnect.apple.com > My Apps > TestFlight > External Testers

2. Click (+) next to Testers, you'll need Apple ID, and first and last name.

3. Tell them to click on email invite to download TestFlight

Backend - Server

Backend code for API requests is maintained in the django folder, which has been cloned onto our DigitalOcean droplet at wethepeople.tech. To start the mongo service, run service mongod start. To start the Gunicorn service, run service gunicorn start. In django/django_project/weThePeople, views.py and urls.py do the heavy-lifting for API requests and responses.

Backend - Bill Stuff

Backend code for bill fetching and insertions is maintain in the nlp folder. The end-all script to run is nlp/fetch_bills.sh, which uses some Python and Bash scripts in the congress folder to fetch bills and insert them into the database. This is automated every-6-hourly with a cronjob, which is set to: cd /home/nlp && source /root/.virtualenvs/congress/bin/activate && ./fetch_bills.sh >> /home/nlp/cronjob.log 2>&1 && deactivate. Bill fetching uses parts of the public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, found at https://github.com/unitedstates/congress.

Backend - Interface

The backend provided the following API routes:

api/v1/get_bills
api/v1/get_bill_by_id
api/v1/user_reaction
api/v1/get_newsfeed_bills