In this exercise, you'll be filling in the missing piece in a simple client/backend/database system.

The environment is orchestrated using docker compose, which currently has the client and database configurations built in.

The client is a simple React app that is expecting to get a list of people from the backend, with a optional search query parameter.

The database is a MySQL database with 2 tables, people and people_colors. Here's the schemas for those tables:

The backend should respond to http://localhost:4000/people with the optional query parameter q (eg. http://localhost:4000/people?q=vin.

With no query, this endpoint should return all people in the table. When specified, the query parameter should be used to search people.

This endpoint should return a json response, with a list of records of the following form:

[
  {
    "colors": [
      "Goldenrod", 
      "Yellow", 
      "Yellow"
    ], 
    "id": 2, 
    "imgUrl": "https://robohash.org/utquamreiciendis.jpg?size=64x64&set=set1", 
    "location": "Iguig", 
    "name": "Rourke Luckin"
  }, 
  {
    "colors": [
      "Yellow", 
      "Puce", 
      "Indigo"
    ], 
    "id": 3, 
    "imgUrl": "https://robohash.org/omnisbeataeest.jpg?size=64x64&set=set1", 
    "location": "Formiga", 
    "name": "Brianna McElree"
  }, 
  ...
]

Feel free to create the backend using any language of your choice. The only requirement is to dockerize the backend, and add it to the docker compose environment.

One thing to note for your backend: you'll need to support CORS so that the client doesn't deny the access control headers.

To get started, please fork this repository. We'd like you to share the forked repository with us once you're done.

To run this environment, the only prerequisite is Docker. Follow the instructions here to install docker for your platform.

After that, run the following command in project directory:

docker compose up

Without an implemented backend, the client and database should launch after a little bit.

If you visit http://localhost:3000, you should see the following page:

When you've successfully created a backend that's running at port 4000, exposed in your docker environment, you should see the following list of cards in the client:

And here's what results you should get if you're searching:

Along with the forked repository, please provide a brief summary of your decisions of language, frameworks and major libraries.