Hello! Thank you for your interest in joining our api engineering team at Stylindex :)
We ask all candidates to complete this short exercise to help us evaluate their suitability for the roles we are recruiting for. We recommend spending between 2 and 4 hours. You will have an opportunity to discuss your solution, and the choices you made at the next interview stage.
Create a simple, 2 endpoint JSON api that fetches data from an external source.
- Fetch data from
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/styl-reading-list/data.json - Endpoint
/booksshould return a collection of books - Endpoint
/booksshould be capable of returning data sorted by publication date, ascending and descending - Endpoint
/booksshould be capable of returning data sorted alphabetically by title, ascending and descending - Endpoint
/authorsshould return a collection of authors, each author item should contain a collection of their books
A good solution will
- satisfy the acceptance criteria
- have good test coverage
- use appropriate libraries
- be production ready
Please put your solution on a repository hosting service such as GitHub or Bitbucket and don't forget to include a README file to tell us how to build and run the application :)