bakhtiyor/ev-comply-test-assignment

Technical test

Using Laravel / Vue

Create a form to subscribe to a newsletter. Please spend no more than 2 hours to complete this.

Email field completed in a form on the page is submitted to backend, show a success message “x” after successful submission.
The email address is added to a newsletter recipients table
Queue up a job that is responsible for sending the newsletter email to the given email address (the email can simply say “Here is our newsletter”)

Clone a repository git clone git@github.com:bakhtiyor/ev-comply-test-assignment.git ev-comply-test-assignment
Go to the application folder cd ev-comply-test-assignment
Install dependencies composer install
Copy .env.example file and create a new .env file (cp .env.example .env)
Run php artisan key:generate to generate your application encryption key
Set following parameters in .env file
- DB_DATABASE - the name of you database
- DB_USERNAME - database username
- DB_PASSWORD - database password
- QUEUE_CONNECTION=database - use database driver for a queue
- set MAIL_XXX parameters for sending email, a sample MAIL configuration
  - MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
  - MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
  - MAIL_PORT=587
  - MAIL_USERNAME=your_name@gmail.com
  - MAIL_PASSWORD=your-password
  - MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
  - MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=your_name@gmail.com
  - MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
Run php artisan migrate to create necessary tables
Run npm install to install all dependencies
Run npm run dev to compile your assets
Run php artisan serve to start the application, usually it starts a development server on http://127.0.0.1:8000, open it on your browser
Run php artisan queue:listen to start and listen a queue worker and process new jobs
Enter your email in a subscription form and click Subscribe Me button
An welcome email should come to an Inbox of the specified email after a while. If there is no email in an Inbox then probably it is in a Junk folder