caneslarry/backend-test

Reading List

Task

Fork this repository and add functionality that allows the user to create a list of books they would like to read. This repository provides a base Silverstripe installation that will serve as the foundation of your project.

Users should be able to perform the following actions:

• Add or remove books from the list
• Change the order of the books in the list
• Sort the list of books by their author
• Display a book detail page with a minimum of author, publication date, and title

Please use the Silverstripe ORM (https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/model/data_model_and_orm/) rather than crafting queries by hand.

To submit your test, please commit all work to the master branch of your fork and send us a link to your forked repository.

Project Setup

• You need a local web server and MySQL instance. We use MAMP, which provides both, but please use whatever you're comfortable with.
• Point your web server at the /public directory in this project.
• Install composer (see https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md). After installation, run composer install in the project root directory to install the project dependencies like the framework.
  • See Silverstripe documentation about Composer for more information: https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/getting_started/composer/
• Copy the .env.example file to .env and update MySQL credentials in the .env file to match your local username/password (it comes set to root:root). You may also need to adjust the database server depending on your local setup.
• To load the site up in the browser and build the database go to http://localhost:8888/dev/build?flush=all (or equivalant for your local environment).
• You should now have a working site at http://localhost:8888
• See this documentation for further details https://www.silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/v4/up-and-running-setting-up-a-local-silverstripe-dev-environment-1

Silverstripe Documentation

• Adding a table to the database: https://www.silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/v4/introduction-to-the-orm-1
• Adding a new page/controller: https://www.silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/v4/the-holderpage-pattern-1
• Outputting content to the page: https://www.silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/v4/adding-dynamic-content-1
• More lessons here: https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/lessons/

Bonus Points!

• Add CMS controls for an admin to manage the books via a ModelAdmin subclass (https://www.silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/v4/introduction-to-modeladmin-1).
• Deploy it for real so we can play with it! (and then tell us about how you deployed it)
• Handle image uploading while adding books to the list
• Do something fancy like integrating an external API
• Make the frontend responsive
• On the frontend, use the Bootstrap 4 library