This application was a Mod 4 solo project in the Front End program at the Turing School of Software and Design whose purpose was to mimic a take-home assignment given during a hiring process. The maximum amount of time we could spend coding was 8 hours.

Our assigned MVP included the following:

• A list of articles
• A “detailed” view for each article (as opposed to summary/list view)
• Articles in the list must link to the detailed article view you create
• Some sort of search, filter, OR sort

The project spec can be found here.

The project is deployed here.

• Gif of the homepage and on-hover states in mobile view

• Gif demonstrating sorting functionality in tablet view

• Gif demonstrating article details page in laptop view

This application was built by Alex Kio; a Front End Engineering, Mod 4 student at the Turing School of Software and Design.

This application was built using the React javascript framework. Router was used to create a single-page application. Cypress and PropTypes were used to test user stories and data typing. GitHub and Git were used for version control and issue tracking. GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages were used for CI/CD.

I started this project by creating a Project Board, turning the MVP user stories into issues, creating a PR template, setting up CI/CD, and tackling the MVP one user story at a time. Lastly, I created a robust testing suite using Cypress (including intercepts, stubs, and custom commands) and PropTypes.

I met with an instructor and received feedback about how I had not implemented sorting functionality by default. I refactored the project and testing suite to accommodate this feedback.

I appreciated the challenge that this project presented: how would I prioritize features in order to efficiently achieve an MVP. I had to make very calculated decisions in order to do this. For example, I chose not to prioritize CSS so that I would have time to create a testing suite.

If time was a less limited resource I'd would have liked to:

• Fetch articles from pages other than the home page or at least allow users to fetch articles from a page of their selection
• Implement filter functionality such as filter by section, author, article type, or des_facet
• Implement find functionality such as find by title
• Add styling and multimedia
• Make header sticky
• Clean Data
• Render loading

1. Clone down this repository git clone https://github.com/alexmkio/new-fork-times
2. CD into your local clone cd new-fork-times
3. Install project dependencies npm install
4. Run npm start
5. Open http://localhost:3000/ in your preferred browser