syjer/fullstack-exercise

A small exercise for refreshing the know-how

fullstack-exercise

Why

This exercise try to touch every part of the stack. The goal is to refresh and highlight the necessities when developing a "normal" application.

What

The goal is to build an image gallery with some interesting features:

• user image upload
• tagging and search
• exif metadata extraction
• comments
• login system
• pagination

Architecture

Like most modern web application, we will have a backend and frontend portion.

Backend

Technical requirements

Expected the following technologies:

• Persistence: use of Postgres (check the more advanced features)
• REST api

Frontend

Technical requirements

Expected the following "technologies":

• use of a "javascript framework": angular (1.x or 6), react, vue
• responsive design

Requirements

In term of features, the application must have:

• possibility to upload images (anonymous user)
• display all the images with a thumbnail (with server side pagination)
• when clicking on a thumbnail, it must show the full image
• tag an image
• search by tag
• display exif information of an image
• add a comment system
• add a login system, make the "write operation" (upload image, delete an image, tagging an image, comments) require a login