Bloggie is a blog site. On the frontend/user facing site, there are three page types - home page, blog index/list page, and a blog show/details page.
There is also an admin panel for authorised users to create and edit blog posts.
- Copy this project to a new repo on github, using best practices for your commits.
- Install the laravel project as normal - using yarn as the JS package manager.
- Run the migrations & seeder to get the initial data (Blogs and Users) set up.
- There is admin panel that is only accessible to logged in users, there is no link to it on the website. You can navigate to
/adminto access it.
- The expired_at field not saving when creating OR editing a blog post in the admin panel. Investigate and fix.
- Ensure the "Latest Blogs" section on the website home page is showing the most recently published, live posts.
- Ensure the "Latest Blogs" section on the website home page is only showing up to 3 posts.
- The "Featured Blogs" section is not showing any blogs, even when there is valid data in the database. Investigate and fix.
- The client would like the "Featured Blogs" to be ordered by the most recently featured first.
- Ensure the frontend/website
/blogpage is showing live blogs, ordered by the most recently published first. - When clicking through to a blog post from
/blogpage, we are getting a 404. - Clear as many console log errors as possible.
- The client would like a new field adding to the blogs for a second section of content. Implement this functionality.
- There is no need to worry about the styling of the section on the frontend website, just add it as a new
<p>tag below the main content.
- There is no need to worry about the styling of the section on the frontend website, just add it as a new
The client wants a testimonial section adding to the site. Testimonials are simply reviews/messages that a customer has sent in via email, survey, form, etc.
They will be manually added to the system by a user with access to the admin panel, so:
- Implement the functionality to create, edit, and view testimonials (reviews) in the admin.
- user_name - The First and Last name of the person who left the testimonial
- message - A short message that the user has left
- rating - A numerical rating 0-5 (inclusive) - with 5 being the best.
- Show the testimonials on the website accessed using the url
/what-our-customers-say-about-usordered by highest rating first- There is a vue component
<testimonial-card>ready to use. You can just pass the testimonial through as a prop. (No changes are required to this vue file)
- There is a vue component
- Add a link in the header next to the "Blog Posts" link, called "Reviews"
- Add a "Latest Blogs" section to the bottom of the new testimonial page, that shows up to 9 of the latest (live) posts.
- Add a "Latest Testimonials" section to the website homepage below "Featured Blogs", showing the 3 latest testimonials.
- Are there any changes you'd make to the code base to "clean" it up or make it more efficient.
- Note: You do not need to make these changes, just brainstorm a few ideas.
- When referring to the "frontend" or "website" for this test, we mean the pages accessible as a guest i.e. pages where the url does not start with
/admin - When referring to "admin" or "admin panel" for this test, we mean pages that require a user to be logged in i.e. pages where the url starts with
/admin - Any environment variables that you need are in the example env file.
- There is no way to register a user, however you can find the email and password for the test user in the seeder.
- A "live" post is one with a published at date in the past, and an expired date that is null or in the future.
- A featured post is a post that has featured_at set, however it should only be visible on the website if it is "live" (see above) and has a featured date in the past.
- You shouldn't need to install any additional packages (php or js) to complete these tasks.
- Laravel Debugbar and Laravel Telescope have been installed to help with any debugging if required.