Horizonello: a Horizons Trello Clone

Table of contents

1. Intro
2. Your tasks
3. Submitting
4. Evaluation
5. Running project
6. Schema
7. Project Layout
8. API Endpoints
   1. Get all lists
   2. Get one list
   3. Create new list
   4. Update existing list

Intro

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a simplified Trello clone.

Trello is a simple task management tool with three components: boards, lists and cards. Each board has multiple lists, each list has multiple cards, and cards have names. Here's what Trello looks like.

In this exercise, we'll be building a single Trello-like board.

Your tasks

Don't try to do all of these tasks at once. Tackle them one at a time and move on once you've completed task. It's OK if you don't complete all tasks, we give partial credit ✅.

Your solutions should store and read data from the server. API endpoints listed below may be helpful for this. You can render your interface on the client or on the server.

The app currently has no styling; it's up to you to add style and interactivity to it as you go through these tasks. Be creative!

1. View lists, create new list [frontend]
   Allow users to view and create lists. Lists should be displayed as vertical columns in a Trello-like manner.
   See: GET /api/lists and POST /api/lists.
2. Fix POST /api/list/:id endpoint [backend]
   There's a bug 🪲 in the API endpoint for updating Lists in app.js. Find it and fix it.
3. Create new card in a list [frontend]
   Allow users to create new cards in existing lists.
   See: POST /api/lists/:id.
4. Rename list [frontend]
   Allow users to rename existing lists.
   See: POST /api/lists/:id.
5. Change card contents [frontend]
   Allow users to change the contents of cards.
   See: POST /api/lists/:id.
6. Delete card [frontend]
   Allow users to delete single cards.
   See: POST /api/lists/:id.
7. Move cards [frontend]
   Allow users to move cards within and between lists.
   See: POST /api/lists/:id.
8. Reorder lists [frontend]
   Allow users to reorder whole lists. You can use drag-and-drop or buttons.
   See: POST /api/lists/:id.
9. Implement DELETE /api/lists/:id [backend]
   Create a new Express endpoint that takes a DELETE request and an id and deletes a single list. This endpoint should return 400 Bad Request if list with id can't be found.
   See: function storage.del(kind, id) in storage.js
10. Delete list [frontend]
    Allow users to delete whole lists.
    See: DELETE /api/lists/:id.

Legend:

• [frontend]: Task involves work in the browser with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• [backend]: Task involves work in the server with Node and Express

Submitting

We recommend that you don't publicly fork this repository.

1. Make sure all your changes are committed to git.

   $ git status
   On branch master
   nothing to commit, working directory clean

2. Create a zip archive of your project.

   $ git archive master --format zip -o "horizonello-[YOUR NAME].zip"

3. Email us horizonello-[YOUR NAME].zip.

Evaluation

You work will be evaluated based on the following criteria (in decreasing order of importance):

• Correctness (most important): The features you implement work correctly. There are no errors in the console. It's not easy to make your code break.
• Completeness: Every feature is implemented.
• Visual styling and ease of use (least important): The user interface is easy to use and looks good.

❗ Important: Your app MUST start successfully with npm install && npm start command. We will be using this command to start and test your app. ❗

Feel free to add any dependencies or 3rd party libraries to this project. You can also modify any files in this project.

Running project

To run the project, clone this repository and open it up in your terminal and run:

npm install && npm start

You should see:

BLAH BLAH BLAH

> [email protected] start /Users/user/horizonello
> node app.js

Initializing storage...
Done initializing storage. Read 0 entities.
Express started on port 3000

You can now visit localhost:3000 to see your app.

To delete all List data run: npm run clean

Schema

We represent our Trello-like board using a single entity: Lists. Our board has cards too but every card lives under a list. You can't create a card without a list.

Lists have the following properties:

• id (integer) (required): Provided by the storage layer. Uniquely identifies each list.
• name (string) (required): Name of the list.
• pos (integer) (required): Position of the list on the board. Lists should be displayed in increasing pos order from left to right. So pos 0 is the leftmost list.
• cards (array of strings) (optional): Each string in this array represents a card on the list. These cards should be displayed in top to bottom order. In other words, first card in this array should be the topmost card in the current list.

Example valid List:

{
  "id": 0,
  "name": "List name",
  "pos": 0,
  "cards": ["Card 1", "Card 2"]
}

Project Layout

On the backend, we've set up Express with express-handlebars for templates for you. The index page lives in views/index.handlebars. The boilerplate and header footer code lives in views/layouts/main.handlebars.

The main Express JavaScript file is app.js. You can find the route definitions here. storage.js contains code for reading and storing persisted data.

Client-side assets are in the static/ folder. CSS styles are in static/css/styles.css. Client-side JavaScript is in static/js/script.js; you will find example code for interacting with API endpoints here. styles.css and script.js are included in every page.

Your solution should use Node.js and Express but otherwise feel free to change anything else in this project.

API Endpoints

You can use these endpoints to read and update data from the server in the browser.

For endpoints that take POST requests request parameters must be passed through the request body (i.e. not the URL). You can use regular jQuery AJAX request serialization (i.e. form-encoded) or JSON.

Get all lists

• Method: GET
• Path: /api/list
• Response codes and contents

  • 200: Success. Response will contain an object with a single key rows, all list objects are returned under this.

    {
      "rows": [{"name": "List name", "pos": 1, "cards": ["Card 1"]}]
    }

Get one list

• Method: GET
• Path: /api/list/:id
• Response codes and contents

  • 200: Success. Response will contain list.

    { "name": "List name", "pos": 1, "cards": ["Card 1"] }

  • 404: Not found. If no list with id is found.

Create new list

• Method: POST
• Path: /api/list
• Request parameters: All request parameters are expected to be passed in through the request body (i.e. not the URL).
  • name (required): name of the list
  • pos (required): number representing the position of this list on the screen. pos counts up left-to-right.
  • cards (optional): array of strings representing cards under the current list.
• Responses:
  • 200: Success. Response will be the list object that was just created.
  • 400: Invalid request. Missing required fields or bad field values. Check the logs.

Update existing list

Note: There's a bug 🪲 in this endpoint. One of your tasks is to find it and fix it.

• Method: POST
• Path: /api/list/:id
  • id (required): id of the list to update
• Request parameters: All request parameters are expected to be passed in through the request body (i.e. not the URL).
  • name (required): name of the list
  • pos (required): number representing the position of this list on the screen. pos counts up left-to-right.
  • cards (optional): array of strings representing cards under the current list.
• Responses:
  • 200: Success. Response will be the list object that was just created.
  • 400: Invalid request. Missing required fields or bad field values. Check the logs.