stensby/quotes

Management system for storing and editing simple quotes. Technical assignment for backend web development job interview.

Quote API Technical Takehome

A management system for storing and editing simple quotes.

Requirements were to implement a CRUD REST API for quotes. See the full prompt for details.

Implemented in Python, using the Flask web framework.

Setup

Can be run locally or in Docker using make start or make start_docker.

Supported endpoints/methods

• GET /quotes returns all quotes
• GET /quotes/id returns a single quote
• POST with json body to /quotes to create a new quote
• PUT with json body to /quotes/id to update an existing quote
• GET /authors returns all authors

Future improvements

• Database to replace temporary runtime storage of quotes and auth
  • Would allow for data persistance, efficent sorting and filtering options by other fields (e.g. return results oldest to newest)
• GraphQL endpoint instead of multiple rest endpoints/methods, allow for easy exploration of relationships between authors, quotes
• Put behind production ready webserver with nginx proxy for SSL support (could also be provided by putting behind cloud hosting load balancer)