The Property Tax Appeal Project

Welcome to the property tax appeal project repository. This is a Flask/React project designed for deployment to AWS Lambda through Terraform which files property tax appeals for low-income homeowners in Detroit and Chicago.

Setup

To install Python dependencies and run locally, you'll need Poetry installed. Then you can run:

poetry install
poetry run python app.py

Rebuild Frontend

From Scratch

Run the following lines to build and start the app. Must have npm and flask installed. Run npm start on a separate terminal.

npm install
npm start

Rebuilding after Install

npm run build

Deployment Guide

The app requires credentials. api/.env includes SENDGRID_API_KEY and MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER. api/.googleenv includes google drive service credentials.

To deploy, you need to locally build the sqlite3 database. Run api/make_db.py to do this.