JS & Rockets
Welcome to our little coding exercise. During this test you will be given the opportunity to play with Javascript and rockets, in the same project. Some people might be horrified at the thought of this being even a possibility. But Javascript is what we do isn't it?
Before you begin please make sure you read this readme file entirely and that you understand everything. If there's anything that you don't please don't hesitate to reach out to ask.
We'd like to give all candidates taking this test the same opportunity to solve the exercise in their own way, because of this we kindly ask you not to fork or share this repo (or your solution) with anybody
Instructions
- Clone this repo to a location of your choosing.
- Write your solution to the exercise making sure the provided tests are green.
- Push your solution to a private repo in your personal Github account.
- When you are ready for us to take a look add the user
adjust-frontendas collaborator to your repo.
Exercise
Using the past launches endpoint from the SpaceX API consolidate a list of all the missions that were launched in 2018 that carried a payload that belonged to NASA. Missions should appear in inverse chronological order with the exception that those that carried more payloads that should appear first.
Display the outcome of your solution by rendering the list to the screen as JSON while keeping an indentation of 2 spaces. To make the evaluation process simpler we only care to see the flight number, the mission name and the amount of payloads carried by each mission.
Expected output
Your solution is expected to render the following:
[
{
"flight_number": 62,
"mission_name": "Iridium NEXT Mission 6",
"payloads_count": 2
},
{
"flight_number": 72,
"mission_name": "CRS-16",
"payloads_count": 1
},
{
"flight_number": 64,
"mission_name": "CRS-15",
"payloads_count": 1
},
{
"flight_number": 60,
"mission_name": "TESS",
"payloads_count": 1
},
{
"flight_number": 59,
"mission_name": "CRS-14",
"payloads_count": 1
}
]Clarifications:
- You can use any utility library you see fit (please don't use React, Angular or Vue)
- Make sure the specs are green
- You can request the data from
https://api.spacexdata.com/v3/launches/past, but you are not allowed to use any of the filter parameters provided by the SpaceX API. - It doesn't matter to which NASA program each payload belongs to as long as NASA is the customer.
- Payloads are carried in the second stage of a rocket and they can belong to multiple customers.
- Please use UTC dates for anything time related.