zouidi/yalla-challenge

Full Stack Developer Assignment

Focus Points

This assignment is designed to test the following:

• Ability to learn something new
• Ability to read/understand documentation
• Ability to see something through from start to finish
• Front end skills
• Back end skills
• Source Code Management
• Common sense
• Quality of work
• Code style
• Understanding of code separation of concerns
• URL structure

Requirements

• Git
• Java 1.8
• Grails 4.0.0
• Get the project running, you can get help from the grails website
• IntelliJ Community Edition (Optional, but recommended)

Task Overview

We need a new page, with an input for the user to type in the name of a github account. Once submitted, the app should display:

• The avatar image of the account
• The location
• The bio
• The github ID
• The number of public repos owned by that account

Expected Behaviour

• The frontend should send the requested account name to the backend
• The backend should check a local cache/database if we already have results for this account
• If not, the backend will call the github api https://api.github.com/users/user_name (e.g. https://api.github.com/users/facebook), and store the results in a local cache/database.
• The backend will return the results from the database to the frontend
• The frontend will display the results accordingly

Instructions

• Read up quickly on the basics of the grails framework and groovy language
• Fork this repository
• Create the new feature on your fork
• Raise a pull request once done
• IMPORTANT - For the PR, use the naming convention yourfirstname-yourlastname