Fullstack

Context

Build a Hacker News like App but for lightning talk polling.

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a meetup etc.

Polling is often needed for the organizers to understand what is more interesting, or for people to decide what should go on stage.

Requirements

User Stories

1. When a user opens the page, he/she should see a list of lighting talks submitted by the users, ordered by rating (poll amount).
2. If there's no lighting talk yet, there should be some description and some text to encourage the users to submit their own talks.
3. For each of the talks in the list, the user could vote it by clicking a button.
4. After voting it, the user should see an updated version of the list, eg. with new talks and new sorting order etc.
5. The users should be able to submit new lighting talks anytime. The required information is the title and description, while the system should also save the submit time and user.
6. After submitting a topic, the user should see an updated version of the list.

Functionality

• The frontend part should be a single page application rendered in the frontend and load data from an API (not rendered from backend).
• If RESTful APIs, they should follow typical RESTful API design pattern.
• Provide proper unit test.

Tech stack

• Use React for the frontend.
• Do not use any scaffolding tool such as create-react-app, or any CSS framework, but try to use some JS libs such as react-router, and packing tools such as Webpack or Parcel etc.
• Prefer TypeScript related backend frameworks. Use any DB for storing the data, or if you prefer, in-memory DBs could just work.

Advanced requirements

These are used for some further challenges. You can safely skip them if you are not asked to do any, but feel free to try out.

• Make it short and expressive, don't spend too much time just give it your best shot in a few hours.
• Make it aesthetically pleasant (not complex).
• Prototype / explain in text for: form validation, error handling strategy, auth, logging strategies.
• Really understand your tools, justify your choice of tech.
• Professional workflow.