Dependencies

Backend Python Dependencies

Backend dependencies are defined in the deps directory. It consistent of 3 files:

• base.txt - Dependencies needed by manage.py.
• develop.txt - Dependencies needed for development and testing. These dependencies will not be deployed to the production environment.
• app.txt - Dependencies needed by your Flask application.

The testing server monitors these files to pick up changes, so you usually won’t have to restart it when you modify these files.

Backend Other Dependencies

Non-Pythonic dependencies should be installed manually on the development machine. Ansible will take care of installing these dependencies in the production environment, so they have to be specified in ansible/roles/common/vars/main.yml.

Frontend Dependencies

Frontend dependencies are only handled by weber-frontend. They’re specified in webapp/bower.json and webapp/package.json. The test server runs Broccoli to monitor these files for changes, so you usually won’t have to restart it when you modify these files.