Programming Exercise: Documents App

Dependencies

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

• Git
• Node.js (with NPM)

Setup

Install dependencies and run the API:

• cd server
• npm install
• npm start

URL Endpoints

The api server runs by default on port 3000. It provides a data url at /api/documents.

Verify now that you can see JSON data at http://localhost:3000/api/documents.

Goals

• git checkout -b [your-name] - a fresh branch for your work.
• Create a simple iOS app to display documents within the client folder.
• Use the screenshots from the designs/ directory as a starting point or for inspiration.
• Your client application should fetch documents data from the api source.
• It should render a row for each document, showing the name and size.
• When a document's row is tapped, segue to a detail view which shows the PDF or image along with its name and size.
• Update the README.md with any instructions for running the iOS app.
• When you are done, send a zip archive over email with your changes.

Bonus Points

• Add icons to each document row, based on the document "type" (pdf or image)
• Add search capabilities
• Simple unit tests
• Expand on the styling of the app, flexibility of the documents data, and/or how documents are shown to the user (be creative!)
• Make the app universal and work in all orientations

Additional Notes

• The server purposefully adds a 500-2500 ms delay for each request.
  • You might set that to 0 for initial development (see server/src/server.js)
  • But in the end, find a way to show users that the file is downloading, such as activity indicators
• Feel free to add any libraries to the client or server apps that you'd like to utilize.
• Lots of freedom here, though be able to reason out why a library is useful. One question might be: What if you could not use said library, how could that be handled?
• Feel free to modify server/src/data.json with any changes that you see fit.
• If you do make any modifications in server/src/, you'll need to stop the process (Ctrl+C) and restart it manually (npm start).