Python-powered chat apps with Twilio and SendGrid Transcripts
Chapter: Creating the admin backend for Flask
Lecture: Remember the admin section?
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At the beginning of the course, we went through an end to end Walk through, the app that we're going to build and you may remember it had this
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admin back end section. But let's go through it one more time to remind you of exactly what we're going to build during this chapter.
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The whole time I've had in our style of the website down at the bottom, this little admin section, and to see how it says /admin,
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you click it in our demo site right now, it will go no where. It'll just crash. But in the finished version that we're building towards,
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we have it right here. Check this out. So the idea is we've gone through WhatsApp as a customer.
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We've selected the type of cake we wanted from the menu with the chat interaction that we've set up at Twilio studio.
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We've priced the cake, and then when they placed the order that goes through the API that we built in our flask application and that saves it to the
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database, Well, that was great. But then what? We actually have to make the cake. How do we know whether we should make a cake and what kind of cake we
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should make. Well, we need an admin back end, and we're gonna, of course, create a simplified version just enough for you to get a sense of like,
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how you would work with this. So we're going to show, say, the order ID, but not necessarily things like the exact flavor of what they wanted
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and so on, since we're not really baking the cake. But the idea is, here is the admin back end that the Bakers would use
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And it would just show them the new orders that are not yet fulfilled and the ones that have already been fulfilled.
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So here you can see these are fulfilled, and it has the date in which that was done. And here's a new one that was open. And if we click this button,
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what it's going to do is it will mark in the database that it was fulfilled
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and it will send a WhatsApp message over to the customer at their WhatsApp contact
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Remember, they got a confirmation in their WhatsApp with the order ID. But what we're going to do is we're actually going to let them know their cake
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is now ready for pickup. If we click this fulfill button here, what should happen is we should update the record in the database to market as fulfilled
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Set the date on which it was completed. Flip the order status from open to fulfilled.
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And in the final version, we're going to send a WhatsApp message to let the user know. Hey, your cake is ready for pickup, you ordered a few days
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ago. It's ready. Please come get it. If we go and click this, see, it's updated it and wait for the WhatsApp message.
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Make sure WhatsApp is running. And there it is. Your case Order Status code is ready for pickup.
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Well, awesome. We got our message sent all the way back to the user through twilio to their WhatsApp account.
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So that's what we're going to build out during this chapter. We're going to build a section that shows this data that allows us to indicate whether
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it's open or fulfilled and actually flip it over to fulfilled. We're gonna wait to do the direct WhatsApp messaging in another chapter,
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but this UI and data element this database exchange that we're doing here, thats we are going to focus on for this chapter.