elevator-app

As part of a screening process I was recently asked to build a basic web application.

This repo is what I put together in the time available.

The brief

Build a web app to administer an elevatory system that:

• Is responsive.
• Caters for 4 elevators (A,B,C,D).
• Caters for 10 floors.
• Has a max person load of 20 per elevator.
• Dispatches an elevator closest to floor where one was requested.
• Shows how many boarding passengers are waiting for a given floor.
• Has a mechanism for entering boarding passengers and destination for a given floor (related to the above).
• Shows each elevator and its direction of travel (up, down, stationary) along with its load.

Built application

The built app can be found in the compiled-app directory.

This can be served through your web server of choice.

Alternatively, you can use grunt to serve it with grunt serveCompiledApp from the terminal.

Development requirements

• Node.js
• Yeoman
• Yeoman generator-angular

To install dependencies run:

npm install bower install

To develop, run:

grunt serve

This will start a server and see LiveReload changes.

Tests

The tests focus on the brief's requirements.

Run:

grunt test

This will run automatically while developing using grunt serve.

Deployment

Run:

grunt build

This will build the app into the compiled-app directory and start a server to serve it on:

http://locahost:8787

It essentially runs grunt serveCompiledApp as the last task in the build queue.

Limitations

• There is no backend although it could benefit from one. The data is mocked in the MainCtrl controller.
• The main.html view could refactor the use of ng-class, perhaps making use of a directive instead.
• There could be better error handling and validation in the view and controller.