Junior Technical Test 01

Prerequisites

To build and run the project you need Docker and Docker Compose

• Docker installation guide https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ choose your platform and follow the instructions
• Docker compose installation guide https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Description

This is a little test to check your abilities working with a framework like Django and create a working web application using PostgreSQL as storage.

Excercises

1. Write 2 models representing an article and an author associated to it, this is an UML representation of the result

    

2. Implement the view /articles that shows a well written HTML page of the list of titles of the current articles stored, each title is a link to the detail of the article
3. Implement the view /articles/:id that shows in well written HTML page the detail (title, content, author name) of an article.
4. Implement a counter for each article that keeps count of the number of pageviews
5. Implement a view /report that lists the article titles and pageviews number

Bonus (Optional)

1. Write a REST API /rest/articles that returns the json representation of the articles list
2. Write a test using Django's test runner of the API

Duration of the test

 1 week

Conclusion

At the end of the excercises step is expected a document decribing how to run the application and populate the database to try out the views implemented. The pages must be well structured but no extra points are given for the web design, you can use any css framework you know and like

Run the django app

Execute

    make up

    make migrate

the command builds and creates a development environment for a django web app that you can test navigating to http://localhost:8000

Commands

Build the docker image of the django app

    make build

Start the django application and all the services needed

    make up

Open a session in the container terminal

    make bash