GSTV React Coding Exercise

Overview

We are asking you to build out a sample application using the Github API. The following simulates the kind of requirements that our developers are given - minus wireframes.

Filter - User Search

Format
- Search Box
- Input
Functionality
- Search Box
- Debounces requests to avoid spamming User Search API
- Minimum of 3 characters

List - Search Results

Format
- Normal State
  - Displayed below Filter - User Search
  - For each Result
  - Gravatar Image
  - Github Username
  - Detail Icon
- Empty State
  - Messages
    - If the search query returns no results
      - Your search returned no results. Please search for another user.
Functionality
- Profile Icon
  - Links to Detail - User view for selected user

Detail - User

Format
- Normal State
  - Gravatar Image
  - Github Username
  - Name
  - Company
    - Empty State
      - Do not display if not returned
  - Blog
    - Empty State
      - Do not display if not returned
  - Location
    - Empty State
      - Do not display if not returned
  - Email
    - Empty State
      - Do not display if not returned
    - Email should display as a mailto link
  - Bio
    - Empty State
      - Do not display if not returned
  - Account Creation
    - Display in human readable format
  - Follower List
  - Repo List

Technology

We ask that you use the same technology that we use on a daily basis. This includes

React
JSX
ES6+
Bootstrap
Redux

Setup

To get started, you will need to globally install rwb. This is a simple global tool to run and serve this application. Keep in mind this exercise works with v0.0.19 (latest stable since our last tests).

npm install -g rwb

Run an npm install.

npm install

The application is already setup with some basic files and can be run simply with the start script.

npm run start.

This will serve the application at localhost:3000.

Submitting Your Work

Please fork our repository and use a feature branch workflow while developing your functionality. When you are ready to submit your work make a pull request against our repository.

Version Control

GitFlow and GithubFlow

We use GitFlow on a daily basis - this allows us to build quality control into our development, QA and deployment process.

We are asking that you use a modified Github Flow - sometimes referred to as a feature branch workflow - methodology instead of GitFlow. Conceptually, GitFlow and Github flow are similar.

JavaScript

Standards

We try to follow the Airbnb style guide as much as possible. We don't expect you to strictly adhere to these standards, but they may help provide insight into how our JavaScript is generally structured.

Unit Testing

Please feel free to create unit tests - we use Mocha.

Styling

We use a modified version of Bootstrap for our styles and have been experimenting with the alpha release of Bootstrap 4.

Sass

On Node Sass

We rely on Node Sass to compile our stylesheets because of its speed. However, because there is not currently feature parity between Ruby Sass and LibSass not all documented features are supported. Hugo Giraudel's Sass Compatibility project is the best way to identify these differences. @acolson spends way too much time following this.

Sass Standards

We loosely follow Hugo Giraudel's Sass Guidelines - particularly his thoughts on code clarity and avoiding nesting selectors unless absolutely necessary.

Class Naming Conventions

Our custom styles are written using OOCSS principles - specifically BEM methodology. This promotes a separation of content from context leading to highly reusable styles and hopefully prevents us from using !important which is the work of the devil.

BEM naming conventions

.block {}
.block__element {}
.block__element--modifier {}
.block--modifier {}

.media {}
.media__img {}
.media__img--rev {}
.media__body {}

BEM naming conventions used in markup

div.media
  img.media__img--rev(src='logo.png' alt='Foo Corp logo')
    div.media__body
      h3.alpha Welcome to Foo Corp
      p.lede Foo Corp is the best, seriously!

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