silverorange React Developer Assessment

This exercise is designed to assess how you approach tasks required in your position as a React developer at silverorange. We are interested to see how you work as well, as what your final results are; include useful Git commit messages and comments where you think your code may be unclear.

Tasks

Using the provided create-react-app base in /web:

1. Fetch post data from the provided Express API.
2. Display a list of posts. Include the post title, summary, author, and publish date in the list.
3. The list of posts should be displayed in reverse chronological order.
4. Add buttons for each author. Make clicking on an author button filter the list of posts by author.
5. Make the title of each post in the list clickable. When you click a post title, display the formatted post body and title.
6. Implement basic snapshot regression tests tests using Jest for your components. Jest is installed by create-react-app and can be run from the web/ folder with yarn test.

The post body is formatted as Markdown and the rendered page should use the formatted Markdown.

Environment

You can use any stable version of Node JS. The base project is written using TypeScript but you may use vanilla JavaScript to complete the tasks.

Coding Standard

Please use ESLint and Prettier for your code. The project is set up to lint your code using:

yarn lint

If your editor is not already configured to use Prettier, you can format code in the project using:

yarn prettier-write

Dependencies

Please use the Yarn or NPM tools for dependency management. You can use any 3rd-party libraries as necessary or as desired in order to achieve the tasks. The project is currently set up to use Yarn but you may update it to use NPM if that is your preference.

Commits

Your commit history is important to us! Try to make meaningful commit messages that show your progress.

Getting Started With the Express Backend (/api)

For this exercise a pre-built Express application is provided. The application runs by default on localhost:4000 and has the following endpoints:

• http://localhost:4000/posts - returns a JSON-encoded array of blog posts.

Running the Express Application

cd api/
yarn install
yarn start

You can verify the API is working by visiting http://localhost:4000/posts in your browser or another HTTP client.

Getting Started with the React Frontend (/web)

The React frontend is a bare create-react-app.

Running the React Application

cd web/
yarn install
yarn start