Example Unum ID Pair Programming Project

This project is very similar to the one used as a starting point for our pair programming interviews. Please make sure that you are able to run this project on your machine before your interview.

Requirements

• Node.js v14.14.0 or higher
  • run node -v to check your current version
  • you can use nvm to install and manage multiple Node.js versions if necessary
• npm v6.14.14 or higher
  • should be included with your Node.js installation.
  • run npm -v to check your current version

Running the project

This project uses nodemon to run the server and webpack-dev-server to build and serve the client. Run npm install to install dependencies, then npm run start to start the project. You can also start the server and client separately using npm run start:server and npm run start:client, respectively. The server runs on localhost:3000, the client on localhost:8080.

The App

This is an extremely simple web app consisting of a NodeJS Express server and a React client. It allows a user to create an account for the application and log in/out.

App Structure

  ├── client — all client-side code
  │ ├── .babelrc — defines rules for the babel js transpiler
  │ ├── components — direcrory containing all of our React components
  │ ├── index.html — simple html page our built client app will be added into
  │ └── index.js — entry point for client javascript code
  ├── server — our server-side application
  │ └── index.js — our nodejs server code
  ├── db.json — json file that will act as our data store for this project
  ├── package.json
  ├── README.md - this README
  ├── webpack.config.js - configuration file for the webpack build tool

Technologies & Libraries Used

Node.js

• A server-side JavaScript runtime
• API documentation here

Express JS

• Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• API documentation here

React JS

• JavaScript library for building component-based user interfaces. Developed by Facebook.
• Documentation here

LowDB

• A small, simple JSON-based database
• Documentation here