todo-app

DOMAIN: TODO List
INTERFACE: WEB UI (SPA)
PLATFORM: NodeJS
LANGUAGE: JavaScript

Instructions for running the app:

1. Unzip the project folder (if zipped)
2. $ cd /path/to/unzipped/folder/
3. $ npm install
4. $ grunt serve

Project Structure

Because this kind of project is auto-generated, there are lots of superfluous files. The bulk of my personal work is in app/scripts/controllers/ and app/views/.

Additional Notes:

Choice of Project:

I chose these particular settings because I am more familiar with Javascript than Java. I do full stack work with Python most days, and have only worked with Java in an academic context (testing sorting algorithms, big O comparisons, etc.) I'd like to get more familiar with Java (and C#) if this offer works out. (While I am capable at front end, I prefer full stack work.)

Testing:

Running grunt test does allow for unit testing with karma, but because this project depends on both localStorage and HTML pages/views, it is not very testable without something like Selenium to go and actually click through the features. Let me know if you would like to see a certain kind of testing done in this context and I can have it to you in a few days.

Storage:

I chose to use localStorage since this was persistent enough to develop with. Obviously the calls to $window.localStorage would be replaced with GET/POST/PUSH/DELETE calls in some kind of AJAX=>Backend=>DB chain.

I used the following steps to set up this app:

$ npm -v
no5.0.3
$ node -v
v8.1.4
$ npm install -g grunt-cli bower yo generator-karma generator-angular
$ npm install grunt-karma karma karma-phantomjs-launcher karma-jasmine jasmine-core phantomjs-prebuilt --save-dev
$ npm install angularjs-datepicker --save