Capgemini Challenge

Introduction

The backend and frontend are developed as seperate applications, running on docker containers and orchestrated using docker-compose. The backend was developed in Go, using the gin framework. The frontend is written in Typescript with the React framework. The backend is served beyond an nginx proxy, data is read from the provided api and stored to a mongodb database.

Running the application

To run the application, docker and docker-compose are required. To run the application, use the command

$ docker compose up

This will serve the application with every required component and afterwards, the application will be accessible from localhost:3000. There was a dummy authentication set up, so a login would be required to use the application. The credentials are as follows

$ username == user@gmail.com
$ password == password

There are some restrictions put in place to regulate the type of data coming in from the client which can be found here https://github.com/Basillica/capgemini/blob/main/backend/types/requests/auth.go. A very simple one would be that the lenght of the title be longer than 6 charaters. There is also an integrated swagger documentation which can be reached at http://localhost/swagger/index.html#/.

Suggestions for improvement

Filtering was moved to the frontend, as movies are read from state.
A websocket connection can be also created in an event-driven fashion to have the client supplied with the latest changes and data.