Introduce Pipenv

Replace requirements.txt with pipenv for consistent development environments. Pipenv maintains a superior Lockfile similar to NPM. Added additional development dependencies and mypy configuration.

This contains a package update too:

• alembic from 1.12.1 to 1.13.2
• flask from 3.0.0 to 3.0.3
• SQLAlchemy from 2.0.23 to 2.0.31

Dockerfile

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ EXPOSE 5000
 
 # First, copy and install only the requirements...
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-COPY requirements.txt .
+RUN pip install pipenv
+COPY Pipfile.lock .
+RUN pipenv requirements > requirements.txt
+RUN pip uninstall --yes pipenv
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
-
 # ... then the rest of the application. This allows the installation stage to be cached most of the time
 # (so we don't have reinstall of all dependencies every time the container is rebuilt)
 COPY . .