Running the Application

Approach

For this take-home my approach centered around creating a workable, clean solution for interacting with a chat bot over a web api. I had a bit more time, and therefore decided to support the creation of multiple threads with messsages attatched to each thread. This gives the user a bit more organization and is a real-world implementation. I tried to organize the code in a way that is scalable and structurally sound.

Required Software

1. Python
2. Node.js
3. Docker and Docker Compose
4. Poetry
5. Postgres libpq header files (e.g. apt install libpq-dev on Ubuntu, brew install postgresql on macOS)

First-Time Setup

1. cd into backend and run poetry install.
2. cd into frontend and run npm install.

Running the Application

1. From the root directory, run docker compose up.
2. In a separate terminal, cd into backend and run poetry run uvicorn main:app --reload.
3. In a separate terminal, cd into frontend and run npm run dev.