PractiCal

Calendar application with Natural Language Processing for event creation.

Database Setup Instructions

1. Install MySQL server. Instructions on how to do so can be found at:
   https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-installation-excerpt/5.5/en/installing.html

2. Create a new user by logging into mysql as root user and run the following commands:

CREATE USER 'admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost';

Setup Instructions

1. Activate virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

2. Add Google credentials

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=./googlekey.json

3. Install requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. Navigate to static folder and install npm dependencies

npm install

5. Start the development watch server from the static folder

npm run watch

If you get an error here similar to npm WARN babel-loader@8.0.2 requires a peer of @babel/core@⁷.0.0 but none was installed., then you should downgrade your babel-loader to 7.x as follows:

npm install babel-loader@^7 --save-dev

6. Initialise Database by running in the templates/code directory and following the prompts

python3 DatabaseManager.py

7. Open a terminal at the root directory and start the python server

python3 run.py

8. If you recieve error messages involving material-ui, run

npm install --save --save-dev @material-ui/core

9. Login with the following username and password

username: zainab.a@email.com
password: password