Environment essentials for local development

If not already installed:

• install Python 3

• install PostgreSQL

• install Celery to run asynchronous tasks

• install RabbitMQ as the message broker recommended by Celery

• install pip, the python package manager

then:

• download helios-server

• cd into the helios-server directory

• create a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv  

• activate the virtual environment:

source venv/bin/activate

• install dependency requirements:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt