Requirements and Dependencies¶

Backend¶

HFOS’ backend has a few dependencies:

• Python: >= 3.3 (or possibly pypy >= 2.0)
• Database: MongoDb

A few more dependencies like nginx, and some python packages provided per distribution are recommended, but not strictly necessary.

The HFOS Python package additionally installs a few pure Python libraries:

• Circuits
• Click and a few supporting packages
• PyMongo
• PyOpenSSL
• PyStache
• JSONSchema
• DPath
• DeepDiff

Frontend¶

The frontend is built with

• node
• npm

and others. The detailed list can be found in frontend/package.json after pulling the frontend git submodule.