Craft-IT Coding (Beer) Challenge
Welcome to our Front End Development Challenge!
The aim of this challenge is to create a nice single page application and find the right beer for your current mood :D
Weekend, May 19 to May 21 2017
Receive €150 for a weekend of programming!
All the best selected submissions receive the money.
Rules
The following is a requirement:
- When finished, publish your work somewhere on github
- Do it on your own - this is not a group task
- and submit it not later than May 21 2017, 23:59:59 and notify stefan@craft-it.co or add
opusonline
to your github (stefanbenicke
on bitbucket)! - When your code is selected as one of the winners, you have to come in and prove it during a code review
- Be (at least) open to a fulltime/parttime position in our team and take part in an interview. You receive the bounty no matter if you are really becoming a team-member or not.
- By participating you accept that sending out invitations on submissions is at Craft-IT's solely discretion. No submissions will be accepted later than Sunday, May 21 2017, 23:59:59 CET!
In case you have missed the submission deadline, you still have the chance to submit your work until Sunday, May 28 2017, but then you will not receive the money as reward.
Workflow
Use the API of BreweryDB to get a list of all beer styles. Skip all styles for Cider.
Let the user select one to multiple styles and additionally choose ABV (min, max, no limit) and IBU (min, max, no limit) to present a condensed collection of appropriate beers.
The design is completely up to you. There are no restrictions for which framework to use or how it should look like. But please note that this challenge is used to evaluate your programming skills, so don't make it too easy for you.
We are looking into your code the following week/weeks and get back to you as soon as possible. We are all just humans here, so please add any documentation/instruction in a way that we understand it.
Bonus Features
- add a filter for list of styles (e.g. "Wit" hides all except "Witbier")
- selecting a beer from the collection opens a popup with more detailed information
- add filter by brewery
- sort by Name/ABV/IBU/whatever
- take care of responsiveness
BreweryDB API
Register at BreweryDB.com and create your API key. The API is free with up to 400 requests per day, so be wise and cache where possible!
Since BreweryDB API requests do not support CORS including "Access-Control-Allow-Origin"
header and others, we created a simple node application that maps
brewerydb-node calls to a local server application (endpoint /beer
).
Enter the API Key to config.json: "brewerydb_api_key"
.
To use the local server, type once npm install
, then for every usage npm start
and visit localhost:9696
in your browser.
If you prefer another way to fetch data from BreweryDB API you can do so, but you can also use the provided application. You are even free to adjust or extend this server application like you wish.
Considering the limitation of requests per day, the provided wrapper has a built-in cache as JSON files.
Use npm run cleanup
to remove all the stored cache files.
API for Styles
BreweryDB API should look like
/styles?key=<key>
Using the provided wrapper:
/beer/styles
Both are returning the same object with data
as an array of styles.
API for beers
BreweryDB API should look like
/beers?styleId=<styleId>&p=<page>&withBreweries=Y&key=<key>
Using the provided wrapper:
/beer/style/<styleId> (same as page=1)
/beer/style/<styleId>/page/<page>
Both are returning an object with data
as an array of beers.
Notice a difference:
numberOfPages
(BreweryDB API) is callednumPages
(Wrapper)currentPage
(BreweryDB API) is calledpage
(Wrapper)
Keep in mind that not every entry has all parameters! For example, some beers have
a labels
entry for icons. Some beers are missing the fields abv
and/or ibu
,
which has to be reflected when the user selects an according filter!
There are at maximum 50 beers per request and that's why there can be multiple pages. To keep the amount of requests low, you only need to load the first 3 pages if there are more than 1!
About us
Craft IT is a small boutique web development company located in Graz, Austria. We are passionate full-stack developers and serve international clients, with a focus on financial and analytics applications. We do work with a number of APIs from e.g. cloud accounting providers. We mostly do very custom tailored software which (more often than not) exceeds the possibilities of existing frameworks and libraries.
We are looking for new team-members who love hands-on, enjoy great teams, long term projects, a fun work-environment, tabletennis and coffee (not a must, we also have tee).
If you are looking for a job, this is the kind of work you can expect with us. If you want to join us, here's your chance (or send us your CV)!