store-navigation

approach :

    Developed a RESTful api in Flask-RESTful to provide endpoints for the below 3 frontend tasks for an android application for the user to enter the product name/product list.
    Through which the user can perform the following tasks:
    
    1. Search for the location details of the product.
    2. Provide the list of products to get the respective aisle numbers.
    3. Get an optimal path for the shopping trip for the list of products.

    Developed 

database:

    Web scraped the lowes site directory website to get the:
        1. Department Names
        2. Sub-Category names of the respective departments
        3. Products 

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project directory:

        1. app.py // the flask application to create the backend server and provide API end-points
        2. lowesProductDatabase.db // the sqlite database used by the application. Created by web scraping Lowes site Directory website
        3. Android/   // the android application codebase
        4. requirements.txt // the python3 libraries required for the project
        5. Procfile  // for Heroku deployment of the API

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Build Details:

to build the project on your system

cd to your project directory

cd <dir path>

open a terminal and type the following

git clone https://github.com/stenzr/store-navigation.git

press enter

cd to this project directory

cd store-navigation

press enter

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For Starting the Backend Server

create a python virtual environment

sudo apt install python3-venv

press enter

enter your password

enter your system user password

create the environment

python3 -m venv venv1

press enter

activate the environment

source venv1/bin/activate

press enter

install the required project python libraries

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

press enter

start the server

python3 app.py

press ctrl+c to stop the server

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