CrashPad Challenge

CrashPad Coding Challenge

Instructions

• Create an HTML page that loads these data points from a server and plots them on a map.
• Use any back end you would like, e.g. Parse, express, etc.
• Use any client side framework you want to retrieve and display the data, e.g. Angular, Backbone, mapping tools, animation frameworks, etc
• When you click on a pin, it should display extended information about that request, including the description and anything else you feel relevant.

Bonus Points

• Animate the requests appearing on the map in chronological order

Table of Contents

1. Requirements
2. Installation
   1. Environment Configuration File
   2. Deployment

Requirements

Backend

• Node.js
• Express

Frontend

• Polymer

Utilities

• Grunt
• Bower
• npm

Installation

Environment Configuration File

In the root of the project, add a file called .env with the following:

NODE_ENV    = 'development'

port            = 80
portDev         = 8000

In the .env file, change NODE_ENV to production for deployment on a production server.

Deployment

With Grunt, Bower, and npm installed globally, install dependencies by running the following commands from the terminal:

npm install && bower install
grunt

grunt starts the server and watches for changes. To build the project without starting the server, run grunt build instead of grunt.

To stop the server from running in the background in production mode, run grunt stop.