This repository contains everything you will need to create your work sample when applying as a backend developer at Odd Hill.
The work sample will focus on building an API with PHP or Node.js.
The API you will be building will be exposing data about books, the authors of these books and the genres of the books.
- List all books
- List all authors
- List all genres
- List all authors for a specific book
- List all books for a specific author
- List all genres for a specific book
- Get a single book by ID
- Get a single author by ID
- Get a single genre by ID
We expect you to build an API in your framework or collection of packages of choice. You are free to use an API specification you feel comfortable working with but an API built on a REST specification or GraphQL is preferred.
The API should be built in a way that seperate responsibilities e.g. a controller should not fetch data from the database.
The finished work sample should have a readme describing how to get the API up and running.
We expect you to host the code as a repository on Github or GitLab under your own profile.
If you choose to develop the API in PHP we expect you to use one of the popular frameworks available and not just a selection of packages. If you decide to build the API on Node.js a framework is not required but is a valid option.
In this repository you will find database dumps for the data required to build the API. There are database dumps available for MySQL and SQLite.
The following items are not required but if you have the time feel free to implement them. Do note though that we will review these extras in the same way we review the base work sample.
- Search for books by ISBN
- Search for books by title
- Search for authors by name
- Search for genres by name
Integrate with external APIs to fetch additional data like the cover image, reviews and more. Good APIs to integrate with could be one of the following.
https://developers.google.com/books/
https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
Build a basic administrative interface protected by authentication where admins can manage the library of books.
The administrative interface would preferably also be built with either PHP or Node.js based on the language you choose to work with and a template engine of your choice.
You are not expected to build a frontend based on any JavaScript framework since this work sample is focused on backend development.
You will not be required to wite your own css. A frontend framework like Bootstrap is perfectly acceptable.
- Create, edit and delete books.
- Create, edit and delete authors.
- Create, edit and delete genres.
This work sample is not about pointing fingers if something is off. We want to see how you think and how you adapt requirements into code.