Backend API Solution - Simply Wall St Coding Challenge

Created by Raymond Doan, aspiring Junior Front-end Developer at Simply Wall St

Overview

This is a back-end REST API solution built on NodeJS and Express to provide information on company data including share prices and snowflake score.

Instructions

To install and use the web application:

1. Clone the app using terminal: git clone git@github.com:raymonddoan/backend-simplywallst.git.
2. Once the app has been cloned, change into the app's directory using: cd backend-simplywallst.
3. Install the dependencies required to run the app using: yarn install.
4. Once the dependencies have been installed, you can now start the app using: yarn start.

Tech Stack

Backend API server was built on:

• express as the back-end framework,
• nodemon for monitoring the development of the API,
• knex for connecting to the SQLite database, and;
• cors for providing a Express middleware.

Challenge Notes

I have not fully completed the assignment, as I was already well over the 6-8 hour time limit. With more time, I would have liked to add security using an API key.