spotify-challenge

Live Demo: http://nicholastaylor.org/spotify-challenge/

This is a little React app I threw together in response to a task in a Spotify job posting:

If you want to jumpstart the process of talking to us about this role, here’s a little challenge: write a program that outputs the largest unique set of characters that can be removed from this paragraph without letting its length drop below 50.

Config Setup

From the project root, go to the constants directory and change config-SAMPLE.js to config.js: cd src/constants && mv config-SAMPLE.js config.js

Now, if you have certain webfonts you want to use on your implementation, go to the webfont provider of your choice and build your font package. These providers typically give you a URL to put into the <link rel="stylesheet"> tag. Copy that URL to your clipboard. warm up the IDE of your choice and open this config.js file. The file should be a simple JS object:

export const config = {
    fontURL: '',
    fontFamily: ''
}

A quick rundown of what these properties do:

fontURL

Controls where the app grabs its webfonts from. This is where you should paste your URL.

fontFamily

A typical CSS-friendly comma-delimited font stack. (ex. "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif') Don't put the semi-colon at the end.

Testing, Building, Etc.

Now, you should be good to launch the app. All the typical React NPM commands apply:

• npm start – Starts the app in dev mode
• npm test – Starts the app in interactive watch mode
• npm run build – Generates an optimized production build for you to upload to your site and run

Have fun! -Nick