Bicycle Parking Manager (BPM)

Smart bike parking manager project for the Context Aware Systems course.

This project consists of three main orchestrated services:

1. Frontend: Angular application.
2. Backend: Flask (Python) API with PostGIS.
3. Database: PostgreSQL with PostGIS extension.

The architecture is fully dockerized and uses Nginx as a reverse proxy gateway.

How to Run (Makefile)

Essentials

To build:

make up

To take down containers:

make down

Add a -dev to parameter to run in dev mode, for example

make up-dev

For more infos and commands check the Makefile

How to Run (production)

docker compose up -d --build

How to Run (development)

docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.dev.yaml up -d --build

🛠 Development Access Points

Component	URL	Login
Main App	http://localhost	-
API	http://localhost/api/	-
pgAdmin	http://localhost:15432	-
Postgres	localhost:5432	postgres / postgres

📡 Routing Logic

Nginx strips the /api/ prefix.

• Browser: GET /api/areas/test (test route)
• Backend receives: GET /areas/test