regen-network/backend-challenge

Backend Engineering Challenge for Regen Network

Back-end Code Challenge

This challenge consists of creating a RESTful API capable of managing users, their projects and monitoring data on Regen Registry.

The goal here is for us to get a basic understanding of how you code, so it's not meant to be very difficult. Ideally you shouldn't spend more than 4-6 hours on it.

This should be using TypeScript, Express and PostgreSQL.

Instructions

1. Set up database migrations with your desired tool to create a user and project table. A user should have a unique id and a name. A project should have a unique id, a name and a project developer that is an existing user from the user table.

Then provide an API that can:

• create a new user
• list all users
• query user by id
• create a new project
• list all projects
• query project by id

2. For a given project, we want to add some monitoring data. This can happen as part of multiple monitoring rounds. Create a new monitoring_round table as part of your existing database migrations. A monitoring round should have a unique id, a date, some metadata stored as JSON and a monitor that is an existing user from the user table.

Your API should be able to:

• create a new monitoring round
• list all monitoring rounds for a given project
• update an existing monitoring round

3. Complete one of the following tasks:

a. In particular, monitoring round metadata can hold the following information:

• sampling depth
• list of soil samples with location and total carbon percentage for each of them

This metadata is stored as JSON-LD. Write down an example of such metadata in a new metadata.json file using the following properties:

• http://regen.network/samplingDepth
• http://regen.network/soilSamples
• http://schema.org/latitude
• http://schema.org/longitude
• http://regen.network/totalCarbonPercentage

b. Add some tests for testing your API endpoints.

Submission

For submission, please send us an email with a link to your project, ideally as a github repo. Oh, and don't forget to add a nice README.md so we know how to build & run it :)