cmunkydev / api-service-starter-master

Node.js Challenge: Microservice Starter

Goal

To test your ability to be self sufficient, work with 3rd party data, and write code. You have about 4 hours to complete the challenge and at the end you’ll present your work.

Challenge

Write a Node.js server that pulls data from an external data source and returns it in the Common Microservice API format. This is a trivialized version of an API that is used on a Collinear Group project. The goal of the API is give a common API when working with many disparate data sources.

The external data source that you will use can be any kind of public data: a downloaded CSV, data you manually scrapped from a website, or a public API. It is up to you to choose the source.

Evaluation

At the end of the alotted time you will join up with the Collinear Team and walk us through your approach. Be prepared for questions.

Getting Started

You can refer to the existing index.js as an example of a service that implements the Common Microservice API.

Put your code in a file called app.js and update the package.json to run your service and not the example one.

Ready? Go!

Common Microservice API

Get server info (/)

Returns:

• server: Object
  • name: string
  • apiVersion: string
• availableDataSeries: Object
  • <seriesName>: Object
    • name
    • description

Get data (/api/:seriesName)

Returns:

• format: "date"
• initialDataSet: Array
  • Array
    • <UNIX timestamp>: number
    • <dataValue>: number