Start working on server backend, create main bot class

backend/server.py

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+import json
+
+from discord.ext import ipc
+from quart import Quart, jsonify, request
+from quart_cors import cors
+from time import time
+
+
+app = Quart(__name__)
+# TODO allow_origin=re.compile(r"http://localhost:.*")
+#      needs higher Python & Quart version
+app = cors(app, allow_origin="*")
+app.config.from_object(__name__)
+
+
+ipc_client = ipc.Client(secret_key="SOME_SECRET_KEY")
+
+
+@app.route("/ping", methods=["GET"])
+async def ping():
+    """
+    Send a ping request, monitors bot latency, endpoint time, and PSQL latency
+    """
+    latency = await ipc_client.request("get_bot_latency")
+
+    return jsonify({"bot_latency": latency, "response_sent": time()})
+
+
+@app.route("/dm", methods=["POST"])
+async def send_dm():
+    """
+    Send a DM to the given user
+    """
+    data = json.loads((await request.body).decode('UTF-8'))
+
+    dm = await ipc_client.request(
+        "send_dm",
+        user=int(data["userid"]),
+        message=data.get("message")
+    )
+
+    return jsonify({"response": dm})
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    app.run()