Slate backend test assignment (GraphQL)

This repository contains boilerplate for the backend test assignment. The server uses Express and apollo-server-express to expose a GraphQL interface. MongoDB is used as a database with mongoose as ODM.

Goal

Currently, if you run npm start, you will see an error since there are no definitions for Apollo Server. Your task is to create these definitions according to the requirements in Test assignment.

When you are done with the test, please send a link to your repo to your recruiter. Thank you for your time and interest in Slate!

Test assignment

Using the boilerplate in this repo, expose a GraphQL interface with the following features:

• Raise (create) an incident and assign it to a user with an Engineer role
• Assign the incident to a user
• Acknowledge the incident
• Resolve the incident
• Read details about a certain incident
• Delete an incident
• Index all incidents in the system
  • This includes filtering by fields, sorting by the date of creation and update and pagination

Incident and User models are defined for your convenience. There is no need to wire up the user management system.

Evaluation

You should spend no more than 4 hours on this test assignment.

Before you submit the link to your fork with a complete assignment, please make sure your repo contains:

• The code for exposing the GraphQL interface
• A Dockerfile with the code necessary to run your app as a docker container (currently empty)
• Edited docker-compose.yaml that includes the reference to your app's docker image along with mongo

You are allowed to:

• Add/delete any npm packages as you see fit
• Structure the code in any way you want
• Add any code formatters and linters
• Add configuration variables if needed

You are not allowed to:

• Change mongoose models

We will judge your work based on following criteria:

• Code quality, structure and readability
• Amount of boilerplate code
• Usage of new language and framework features to reduce the amount of code written
• Presence of code tests (not required, but is still a big bonus)
• Edge cases coverage (e.g. no user with an Engineer role in the DB)

Start the development

Make sure you have Node.js v8+ installed.

For your convenience this repository also includes a docker-compose.yaml file, which has a mongodb server wired up to the app. docker-compose up -d runs in prestart hook before npm start. If you want to use your own DB setup instead, just delete prestart webhook from package.json.

Run npm start in the root folder of the project to start the development.