What's the Weather Like? | Backend Challenge

This backend challange is for the Hack to Help Backend Developer Commitee recruitment. Anyone applying to be a backend developer for Hack to Help must complete this challenge.

Application Overview

The application that you are required to modify is a weather application that tells the user the current weather based on his/her location. The application gets the geolocation of the user and uses the OpenWeatherMap "Current Weather API" to get the current weather.

You will mainly be concerned with the server-side code which is in index.js. This application is using Node.js and Express to build a server that will be hosting this application.

Challenge

Always use best practices!!

Must have Node.js installed before hand -- v8.11.3 recommended

Installing Dependencies

npm i

Starting the server

npm start

Part 1

Currently the application is looking for a style.css file in public/src/css/. This file does not exist yet. You goal is to convert the sass in resources/scss/style.scss to css and store it in public/src/css/ with the name style.css. This must be performed by adding a package to project. You do not need to add build tools such as webpack or gulp, keep it simple. You must also add a script so that running npm run build calls the proper command to transpile scss to css in the correct location.

You can test if this has executed properly by opening the proper port on your browser. The output should look something like this.

Part 2

Add the proper code to index.js file so that whenever the user tries going to a page that is not at root i.e. .../about it should send the 404.html file as a response. The file is already prepared for you and is located in pages/.

Other Details

You may change other parts of the code if you need to. Be prepared to explain your changes.

Submission

You can either download a zip file and edit that or fork the repo and make your changes there. Whichever way you decide to proceed, make sure to bring in your laptop on the day of your scheduled interview to show us your final result and be prepared to talk through the choices you made. See you soon!

Questions? Concerns?

Email us at [email protected].