Pynterest - Back End

Authors: Tammy Do, Skyler Burger, Joshua Ho

Version: 1.3.0

Overview

This back end server aggregates information from GitHub, PyPI, and Reddit for consumption by the Pynterest front end.

Architecture

Frameworks

• aiohttp : to create and run our asynchronous server

Python Standard Library:

• asyncio : to create asynchronous coroutines and gather them for execution
• json : to load responses from API calls into JSON format
• time : to track the time needed to complete our requests

Packages

• aiohttp_cors : to allow cross-origin resource sharing to our front end which is deployed on Firebase
• feedparser : to parse RSS/XML feed data
• pytest : to test our codebase
• uvloop : to replace asyncio's default event loop with a faster event loop that utilizes Cython

Continuous Integration

• CircleCI : to manage continuous integration based on the results of our pytest testing suite

API

• / : a call to the root route will return a JSON object containing results from six API requests to be consumed by a front end

Change Log

09-09-2019 - 1.1.0

• Added GitHub and PyPI API integration

09-10-2019 - 1.2.0

• Added Reddit API integration

09-11-2019 - 1.3.0

• Deployed to Heroku
• Added CORS functionality

09-12-2019 - 1.4.0

• Added testing
• Added CircleCI integration