Project bootstrap

In the project directory, use the following commands (as appropriate to your computer) to create and activate a virtual environment named .venv based on your current interpreter

Linux

sudo apt-get install python3-venv

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

macOS

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

Windows

py -3 -m venv .venv

.venv\scripts\activate

Update pip in the virtual environment by running the following command in the VS Code:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Install python project dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the Flask backend

Runs the REST server that will parse and respond to the requests with JSON files
containing statistics and datasets resulted from splitting.

python -m flask run

Start the React frontend

cd .\http\my-app\

npm start

The development server that runs locally uses port 3000 for the app,
and the Flask server runs default on pot 5000. In order, to redirect
the fetch requests to the backend, we configure a proxy entry in the
package.json file.