Getting Started

Summary

The front-end and back-end areas of the challenge are broken up in to 2 seperate pieces. The front-end is a React Dev server and the back-end is a custom make NodeJS server using the express package.

Requirements

Please install the latest version of node or the most recent lts.

Init

First of all clone the repository using SSH

git clone git@github.com:Jake-Nolder/coding_challenge.git

or HTTPS

git clone https://github.com/Jake-Nolder/coding_challenge.git

Install the dependencies

Run the below command in order to install the dependencies of the front-end and backend servers.

cd coding_challenge
npm install

This will install the main package, client and server dependencies as well.

Get up and running

Run both of these in 1 terminal each, openning them from the root package folder. 1st from the react dev server, 2nd for the backend node server for the UI.

Terminal 1 start command

npm start server

Please consider running the tests under the heading Testing first before running the following command.

Terminal 2 start command

npm start client

Testing

You can test that the server is up and running correctly as well as making sure the UI will load without issues by running the following command at any time ...

npm run test

If all test are successfully you will have no issues while using the software.