Welcome to the repo for PokéLink, the daily pokemon-themed puzzle game!

Visit the page here!

• As a prerequisite, you need to have a postgres database running.

• Copy the connection string and paste it into a copy of .env.example, which you should rename to .env. Leave the other environment variables as they are.

• Go into the backend folder.

• Run this to install dependencies:

pip install

• Run this to generate pokemon JSON data used to generate graph data:

python pokemon_data_generation.py

• Run this to generate graph data:

python graph_data_generation.py

• Run this to set up your database tables etc.:

python setup.py

• Run this to start a local webserver:

uvicorn main:app --reload --port 80

• Visit localhost/docs to see if the backend is running.

• Go into the frontend folder.

• Run this to install dependencies:

npm i

• Run the following to start a webserver set to run by default on port 5173.

• Visit localhost:5173 to see if the frontend is running.

I deployed the app to vercel. Feel free to choose another option.

• Create a vercel postgres database.

• Set up the tables etc. by changing CONNECTION_STRING in .env to the new connection string temporarily and run the setup.py script in the backend folder.

• Create a vercel blob storage.

• For the frontend and backend respectively, add a new project on vercel. Set the root folder to backend/frontend.

• On the backend project, set up environment variables for CRON_SECRET (can be whatever), CONNECTION_STRING (from the vercel database), ENVIRONMENT ("PRODUCTION") and BLOB_HOST (from the vercel blob storage).

• On the frontend project, set up environment variable for PUBLIC_BACKEND_HOST ("https://pokelink-backend.vercel.app" or something similar).