olaven / mock-exam-pg6300

A mock exam given before the actual exam, in pg6300 at Kristiania University College.

Exam - Web Development and API Design

About the application

Before delivering:

• assert test coverage
• test alle scritps
• assert that no part of exercise is forgotten
• test every feature manually
• test the app without internet connection

Login

When running in dev mode, demo data and demo-users are added. To login, enter the following:

• username: dev
• password: dev

Extras

• I have added styling with Reactstrap. This required adding css-loaders to webpack.config.js.
• To ensure consistent code-style, I have used ESlint. This is also configured as an extra script.
• Although not required, I have set up Travis to automatically run tests

General notes

• Modifications to yarn scripts:
  • configuring yarn dev to set environment variable. It indicates wether the server is running in development mode or not. This way, I may add demo data only when application is not in production.
• notes about copying from course repo
  • Some files are completely copied. Others are copied, and later modified. This is differentiated in the comment.
  • JSON-format does not support comments. package.jsonis copied from this file
• dependencies not used in course
  • eslint and related plugins. This is to create lint-config appropriate for the project (like support for React)
  • nanoid is used for generating random IDs. The library was updated recently, takes minimal amount of space, and has 700k weekly downloads.
  • cross-env is used for setting environment variables. I have access to a Mac. This should make sure that environment variable is working fine on non-UNIX systems as well
  • style-loader for loading styles to reactsrap.
• on general style
  • I could have written some functional components. In particular, the components not having state. However, I stuck with class based components for the sake of consistency.