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+#Just some generic imports
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+from starlette.responses import FileResponse
+from pysondb import db
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+from datetime import datetime
+
+app = FastAPI()
+
+
+# Get handles to database
+care_db_file_name = "care_status.json"
+care_transactions_file_name = "care_transactions.json"
+
+status_db = db.getDb(care_db_file_name)
+transactions_db = db.getDb(care_transactions_file_name)
+
+
+
+# Return a html located within the pages folder
+@app.get("/")
+def root():
+    return FileResponse('pages/checkboxes_demo.html')
+
+
+# Return data by just dumping the database content
+@app.get('/data.json')
+def get_data():
+    all_rows = status_db.getAll()
+    print("hello!")
+    for x in all_rows:
+        del x['id']
+    return {'result': all_rows}
+
+
+# This is the "schema" of web request made back and forth between the frontend and backend
+class UpdateRecordFeedSheet(BaseModel):
+    animal_name: str
+    column_name: str
+    value_set: bool
+    
+
+
+# This updates a record
+@app.post('/update')
+def update_data(item: UpdateRecordFeedSheet):
+
+    # Extract the needed values
+    animal_name = item.animal_name
+    column_name = item.column_name
+    value_set = item.value_set
+
+
+    #Find the row to update, and update the new value
+    row_to_update = status_db.reSearch('name',animal_name)[0]  #Pick the first row of results.  This isn't a proper database
+    status_db.updateById(row_to_update['id'], {column_name:value_set})
+
+    # Add what was done to the transactions database
+    transactions_db.add( {'name': animal_name, 'column_updated': column_name, 'value_set': value_set, 'timestamp':datetime.now().isoformat()})
+
+
+