ElishaKay / gettacar

Start the NodeJS Server

```bash cd api npm install nodemon server ```

Start the React App

```bash cd my-app npm install npm start ```

Story: Looking at gettacar.com’s catalog page (https://www.gettacar.com/used) we’d like to make it more appealing and colorful.

Goal:

Catalog’s first page to have at least 5 different colors of cars

Requirements:

1. Build a small app with a basic Car model: a. CarID b. Make c. Model d. Color
2. Cars data is supplied on fs_cars.csv file
3. Write a naive ‘search’ API:

• Gets page number & Make/Model filters (I should be able to filter by Chvrolet, Camry, etc)
• Returns the cars on the next page (yields a new csv file on every call)

4. Page size: 21 cars
5. Write a Unit Test which validates your code

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Ideas for implementation:

a) Use NodeJS, React repo on github.

--> It already has bootstrap. --> Use the flipping cards feature of bootstrap --> User React search feature code from MAH Repo. --> For Search Feature: Create listener on every letter typed. when user lifts finger, frontend should send request to server for the results of the given search & the dom should update automatically onClick --> (DONE) The attached CSV (xlsx) file should be converted into JSON --> The data of the JSON file, should be injected into the CarsXE API Calls -> Which are triggered every time that a button is clicked

=> Simple idea for getting images into the dataset - writing a mongo script which loops through all items within the dataset, fetches and image, and saves it in the database.

=>Redis Idea: When user interacts with the DOM, send the filters to the server. Check if 21 items that match those filters are available within the Redis Cache. ...

if there are less than 21 cars, make a server side HTTP Request for 21 - cachedCars.length.

res.send({cars})

Example API Call: https://api.carsxe.com/images?key=${process.env.CARSXE_KEY}&year=2018&make=toyota&model=tacoma&color=blue&format=json