Venmo-Microservice

A Microservice to help automate the processing of our member's dues.

Planned Tech Stack:

• Serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway)
• DynamoDB
• Flask
• Venmo-API

Prerequisites:

• Install Node.js
  • Verify you have node.js (v12 or higher) installed node -v
• Install serverless
  • npm install -g serverless
  • Check it is installed with serverless -v
• Clone the project
  • Install our plugins/dependencies for serverless (IaC utility):
    • npm install
    • If you want to be able to develop locally instead of deploying to aws to test code install dynamodb: sls dynamodb install
  • Install our python dependencies:
    • pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Create a file called .env in the root directory
  • Run the get_access_token.py file (python3 get_access_token.py)
  • Add the line it outputs that says VENMO_ACCESS_TOKEN=123123... to your .env file
• To run the project locally:
  • Make sure you're installed dynamodb locally (sls dynamodb install)
  • Start dynamodb in one terminal window/tab: sls dynamodb start
  • Run sls wsgi serve in a seperate terminal window/tab
  • Checkout this guide here for more info on dynamodb local and a useful GUI tool to view your local database
• To deploy the project:
  • Setup your aws credentials - guide here
  • Run sls deploy

Note: in order to deploy to aws/run this locally you may need to install Docker as well (I'm pretty sure we use it for deploying but not 100% sure - I already had it installed prior to setting this up)