mohitvirli/wantedly-assignment

Assignment for wantedly

Wantedly Assignment

You can have the live demo here

This app was generated using express-generator. This app serves as the solution to the assignment given by Wantedly in the following gist gist

Tech stack used

I have used the following to implement the assignment

• Node.js - to create the server
• Express - the nodejs framework
• MongoDB- The database used
• Babel - To transpile the ES6 code.
• Twitter Bootstrap - CSS framework
• jQuery - JS library
• Google Cloud - To host the app

Installation

This requires Node.js v4+ and MongoDB to run.

You can get the instructions to install MongoDB here

You will have to start the mongod service to start the DB.

$ sudo service start mongod

Clone the repo and Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server. (You can use yarn instead of npm i for the obvious reasons)

$ npm i
$ npm start

Then go to http://localhost:3000.

Features

• On the landing page, you can log in through various users by just clicking at the user, and create a new user by using the adjacent form.
• After clicking on the user you are redirected to his/her profile page. Here you can add your skill or endorse the skill listed.
• You have friends list where you can look at the other profiles and do the same with the skills.
• The url with ?(id) slug determines the user, if not present, it is the current users profile.
• Used localStorage to maintain the session

Todos

• I need to implement Mongoose to implement the MongoDB schemas and further reduce the pain of writing more code. Although I could have used it way earlier, I had to learn core MongoDB. So used that instead.
• I have to make the app production ready. As I have deployed the app using babel-node and used the development mode.
• Check for some corner cases.