This is the solution of the backend exercise implemented by Guillermo Posse It involves building a Node.js/Express.js app that will serve a REST API. I spent 3:25 hours in the implementation and unit testing.
All models are defined in src/model.js
A profile can be either a client
or a contractor
.
clients create contracts with contractors. contractor does jobs for clients and get paid.
Each profile has a balance property.
A contract between and client and a contractor.
Contracts have 3 statuses, new
, in_progress
, terminated
. contracts are considered active only when in status in_progress
Contracts group jobs within them.
contractor get paid for jobs by clients under a certain contract.
A deposit model was added to keep record of all the deposits made in the system. Database migrations also created
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The server is running with nodemon which will automatically restart for you when you modify and save a file.
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The database provider is SQLite, which will store data in a file local to your repository called
database.sqlite3
. The ORM Sequelize is on top of it. You should only have to interact with Sequelize - please spend some time reading sequelize documentation before starting the exercise. -
To authenticate users use the
getProfile
middleware that is located under src/middleware/getProfile.js. users are authenticated by passingprofile_id
in the request header. after a user is authenticated his profile will be available underreq.profile
. make sure only users that are on the contract can access their contracts. -
The server is running on port 3001.
Below is a list of the application's API's.
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GET
/contracts/:id
- Returns contract only if associated to the current user -
GET
/contracts
- Returns a list of contracts belonging to a user (client or contractor), the list should only contain non terminated contracts. -
GET
/jobs/unpaid
- Get all unpaid jobs for a user (either a client or contractor), for active contracts only. -
POST
/jobs/:job_id/pay
- Pay for a job, a client can only pay if his balance >= the amount to pay. The amount should be moved from the client's balance to the contractor balance. -
POST
/balances/deposit/:userId
- Deposits money into the the the balance of a client, a client can't deposit more than 25% his total of jobs to pay. (at the deposit moment) -
GET
/admin/best-profession?start=<date>&end=<date>
- Returns the profession that earned the most money (sum of jobs paid) for any contactor that worked in the query time range. -
GET
/admin/best-clients?start=<date>&end=<date>&limit=<integer>
- returns the clients the paid the most for jobs in the query time period. limit query parameter should be applied, default limit is 2.
[
{
"id": 1,
"fullName": "Reece Moyer",
"paid" : 100.3
},
{
"id": 200,
"fullName": "Debora Martin",
"paid" : 99
},
{
"id": 22,
"fullName": "Debora Martin",
"paid" : 21
}
]
I provide a Postman collection to test all transactions of the API