Kontinentalist Technical Test

Live Deployment

https://stormy-falls-77526.herokuapp.com/

Task

Perform an API call to the API below.

https://market.mashape.com/andruxnet/random-famous-quotes

Create a select option to choose between the categories which will then generate a random quote.

Brief Walkthrough

Landing Page

Use the dropdown list to select "Movies", "Famous" or "Random" category, then press Submit.

Quote Page

An API call be made to retrieve a random quote of the desired category and displayed as shown above.

Press Back to get the next random quote.

API Rate Limit

If the API rate limit is reached, just for fun, the error message will also be rendered as if it were a quote as shown above.

Development Log

20/03/2018

Created Git repository and added Git remote origin
Created following files
- ./.gitignore
- ./package.json
- ./README.md
- ./app.js
- ./controller.js
- ./routes.js
- ./views/layouts/main.handlebars
- ./views/home.handlebars
Installed following packages
- express
- body-parser
- path
- nodemon
- express-handlebars
- unirest
Created / route with get and post
Created dropdown list to select quote category and submit button
Wrote API get request through unirest
Created template to display retrieved quote

21/03/2018

Added if-else statement checking the status code of API call to detect error message
Deployed to Heroku
Added API key to Heroku Config Vars, i.e., environment variables
Added reference to environment variable and commented out lines referencing config.js for for API key
Added brief walkthrough and further development log to README.md

Shell Command Reference

git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/limjiechao/kontinentalist.git
git add .
git commit -am "added .gitignore"
git push -u origin master
npm init
npm i express --save
npm i path --save
npm i body-parser --save
npm i nodemon --save
npm i unirest --save
npm i express-handlebars --save
heroku create
git push heroku master
heroku config:set APP_KEY=<API_KEY_HERE>
heroku open

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