bkeating / my-nm-demo

A skills assessment demo I wrote as part of an interview process

My NM Demo App

Skills assessment description

Requested on: Aug 28, 2018

Please complete the following skills assessment:

Develop a SPA application to collect following information:

• Client First name, Last name, Gender, City, Street, State and Zip
• Children (First name, Last name, Gender, Date of Birth)

Application should allow to collect more than one child’s details (First > name, Last name, Gender, Date of Birth) Build NodeJS REST microservice to save Client & Children information in a > text file in CSV format SPA Application should send request to NodeJS REST microservice to save both > Client & Children information in a CSV file

Getting Started

This project comes in two parts; a frontend and backend. The file structure was seeded using my favorite boilerplate project; create-react-app. This means most of the project's file structure and resources are for the frontend. The backend is fairly small. Just the server.js file at root.

$ cd /path/to/this/project
$ yarn && yarn build && yarn server

1. Go to http://localhost:9000
2. Fill in (or edit) form field values
3. Click submit, POSTing to backend server
4. Backend takes the payload and appends it to a CSV file

You can optionally fire up the frontend development server (part of create-react-app) with:

$ yarn start

Things I didn't do (but if there was time...)

• First check if CSV file exists. Create it if not present
• server.js to be a little more DRY
• Provide some basic unit tests
• Rate limit form submissions
• Check for existing records
• Double-click prevention
• Form field validation
• Nicer looking lay out (: