mattburnett-repo / generic-fse-code-challenge

This repo is for an ongoing, generic personal project. It contains frontend and backend code for a generic FSE code challenge.

Generic Full Stack Engineer Code Challenge

This repo is for an ongoing personal project. It contains frontend, backend and authServer code for a generic FSE code challenge. The project retrieves and displays insurance policy / customer records.

It uses React (Frontend) to connect to an ApolloGraphQL server (Backend). The ApolloGraphQL server connects to a remote REST API datastore. Data is pulled from the datastore, through ApolloGraphQL and then displayed to the user as a React UI.

Basic authentication is handled by AuthServer. Authentication is handled separately from application data.

• The repo for the frontend
• The repo for the backend
• The repo for the REST API `datastore
• Docker containers for the frontend, backend and authServer are available here
• The repo for AuthServer

Technology used

• Authentication
  • AuthServer
  • @react-oauth/google (in Frontend)
  • react-login-github (in Frontend)
  • MongoDB / Mongoose
• Frontend
  • React
  • React-Table
  • React-Date-Picker
  • react-flash-message
  • Apollo graphQL Client
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Jest / React Testing Library
• Backend
  • ApolloGL Server / datasource-rest
  • Datastore
    • PostgreSQL
    • Node JS / Express / Swagger/OpenAPI
  • Mocha / Supertest / Chai

Getting Started

Installation from the repos

• Instructions are provided in the README files for frontend, backend and AuthServer repos

Docker containers

• Clone the repo and create the .env files for frontend, backend and authServer.

• You can run Docker containers for the frontend, the backend and the authServer. Instructions are in the respective README.md files

• You can also run the whole thing from the project root directory, after you create the .env files for each container (see READMEs for authServer / backend / frontend for how to do this. TLDR: Copy .sample-env to .env for each module). You won't be able to use OAuth to log in, but you can log in / register using username / password and see the app.

  docker-compose -p generic-fse up -d

  and then run

  localhost:3000

  in a browser window. It may take a few moments to load.

  Stop the Docker containers with:

  docker-compose -p generic-fse down

Tests

• Tests for frontend and backend are located in their respective repositories

To Do

• Google Cloud Deployment
  • Develop CI/CD workflow as a separate effort / sandbox (similar to authSandbox)
• Logging
• Expire the auth token / localStorage ...
  • Combine with 'Remember Me' functionality
• Browse / Search
• More TypeScript
• Refinements to JWT authorization
  • Add authLevel to token
  • Check authLevel within the app, for module-level access
• Investigate / resolve data caching
  • React Table keeps a memoized copy of the data
  • Apollo QL keeps a cache of data
    • use the Apollo QL version