PHP Full Stack Engineer project

The challenge

We want to play Tic Tac Toe. As we are a remote friendly company, we want to be able to play without distance being a challenge to find the best players in the world ;)

We need your help to make this app work, as we have just coded the front end.

Tic Tac Toe functionality

The functional requirements that we want for our tic tac toe application are:

Be able to create and delete matches
Be able to join a match
Be able to make moves and alter the game board
Identify the winner

What does this repository contains

Here we have a Laravel web application that implements all the front-end logic needed for the game, and a simple controller with mocked responses to display the contract we want to have.

What do you have to code

All the backend logic necessary to make the game work.
All the tests that you believe necessary to assert the correctness of your code. You don't have to test the front end implementation.

Skills we are going to assert

General coding skills:
- How do you name your methods, classes and variables
- How do you take care of performance
- How readable your code is
- How simple are the algorithms used
- How do you structure your code
Modeling skills
- Which model you create to solve the problem
- Which concepts it complies with
Problem solving skills
- How do you solve logical problems
PHP knowledge
- How you use the tools the language provides
- How well you know the best practices of the language
Web development skills
- Which patterns do you put in practice
- Which concepts do you use and how
- Which best practices you use
Testing skills
- Which kind of tests you use
Basic git skills
- How do you organize the changes

Skills we are NOT going to assert

Page load performance optimization
Look and feel of the application
Extra features we did not ask for our application

Deadline and other conditions

For your organization, the exercise is supposed to take between 2 and 4 hours
You have four days to send us the solution.
You must fork this repo and send us the link of that fork with the solution
The code must be in english.

Running the application

Install docker and docker-compose

Then run

./setup

This will take a few minutes. It will create the containers and setup them for use.

When finished, run the application with:

./up

And the application will be running in http://localhost:8080.

Note: If the port 8080 is already in use, change the configuration in the docker-compose.yml file. For example, to use the port 9090 instead:

ports:
  - 9090:80

recchia/tictactoe