todoApp

Sample Express REST API

Goals

Show understanding of Javascript
Timeboxed exercise at 3 to 3.5 hours to show velocity
Show understanding of express structure
show composable authentication layer
show ability to test a model function
show understanding of other REST method basic setup even tho not implemented. PUT/DELETE/CREATE
Show I know how to use git and github

*Since this was timeboxed interview exercise, I made sure to only implement a few REST APIs with hardcoded data

*Basic auth is used to show pluggable auth but is only moderately secure under https://. It is NO T secure under http://

need to finish remaining delete/edit/add REST APIs
Add persistent store
Quick and dirty console log is left in for debuggign, a more robust logging framework should be used in the future.
Tests need to check failure cases such as invalid Id passed in, invalid data types. Due to timebox I left out that.

NOTE: These were not done to timebox this exercise.

You must have a node environment installed. Easy enough to Google that I will not go into that here.

Run this:

git clone git@github.com:ryanmmmmm/todoApp.git

cd into todoApp folder

Run this is project root folder:

npm install

On MacOS or Linux, run the app with this command:

$ DEBUG=todoapp:* npm start

On Windows, use this command:

set DEBUG=todoapp:* & npm start

Then run curl to test the two active endpoints.

Note: basic auth is ryan:password for username:password converted to basic auth token.

curl -X GET \ http://localhost:3000/todos \ -H 'authorization: Basic cnlhbjpwYXNzd29yZA==' \ -H 'cache-control: no-cache'

##Testing

Run this in the root folder:

npm test