on-the-fly is a project to promote Live Coding practice, a performative technique focused on writing algorithms in real-time so that the one who writes is part of the algorithm. Live coding is mainly used to produce music or images but it extends beyond that. Our objectives are: supporting knowledge exchange between communities, engaging with critical reflections, promoting free and open source tools and approaching live coding to new audiences. The project runs from 10/2020 to 09/2022, is co-founded by the Creative Europe program, and is led by Hangar in collaboration with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Ljudmila and Creative Coding Utrecht.
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This project is bootstrapped with Create Elm App.
Make a python venv and install the following:
- mysql (for the database)
- aiohttp & gunicorn (for the server)
- aiohttp_middlewares
- aiomysql & sqlalchemy (to communicatie with the database)
You will need to create a .env file in the root of the project with the following variables: ELM_APP_DEV_URL ELM_APP_PROD_URL
gunicorn server:app --bind localhost:8080 --worker-class aiohttp.GunicornWebWorker
- Make the database with the sql script inside the database folder
- Adjust the db connection config inside server.py (lines 92-93). It is better to create a special user for this database.
- If using Nginx or Apache make a proxy to the python server
- To start the server via systemctl you can use the gunicorn.service inside the backend folder. Fill in the correct parts (your_*) and place it in you /etc/systemd/system/ and then
sudo systemctl start gunicorn.service - Check if everything worked with
sudo systemctl status gunicorn.service - If everything looks fine then
sudo systemctl enable gunicorn.service - For the frontend put the contents of the release folder inside the folder you will be serving
- Make sure server.py has the correct CORS policy (line 102)