Tails coding test

About this task

Think of this as an open source project. How would this have to look like, in order for you to be impressed with it - if you were to find it on Github? Now go do that.

Try to limit the amount of time you spend on this to 90-120 minutes. However, feel free to spend more - just make sure you're happy with your submission!

What to do

If you're applying for a backend role

Create a new Python-based application (any framework is fine, we prefer Flask)
Render the list of stores from the stores.json file in alphabetical order through a backend template
Use postcodes.io to get the latitude and longitude for each postcode and render them next to each store location in the template
Build the functionality that allows you to return a list of stores in any given radius of any given postcode in the UK ordered from north to south and unit test it - no need to render anything

If you're applying for a full stack role

Create a new backend application (any language is fine), using your favourite front-end framework (we'd prefer React, Vue or Ember though) on the user-facing side
Build an API that returns stores from the stores.json file, based on a given search string in a performant way and unit test it, i.e. return "Newhaven" when searching for "hav" - make sure the search allows to use both city name and postcode
Order the results by matching postcode first and then matching city names, i.e. "br" would have "Orpington" as the 1st result, "Bracknell" as the 2nd
Build the frontend that renders the text field for the query and the list of stores that match it
Add suggestions to the query field as you type, with a debounce effect of 100ms and a minimum of 2 characters
Limit the results to 3 and lazy load the rest

Finally

Include and render your favourite gif at the top right-hand corner of your application
Zip your code up and upload it into Greenhouse
Tell us what you'd have changed if you'd have had more time?
What bits did you find the toughest? What bit are you most proud of? In both cases, why?
What's one thing we could do to improve this test?

radupotop / radius-stores-api