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Todo App

Revisiting the basics, for development of large scale apps.

Preparations​

Tasks​

  • Create a Todo Item API
    • With Sequential
  • Cover gitflow and prepare a custom diagram in draw.io. Goal is to visualize SDLC from gitflow perspective

Expectations​

  • Prefer async-await over then and callbacks.

  • Don't rely on database generated Id and instead use application generated UUID.

  • Goal is to use layered architecture, directory structure should be well organized.

  • Create Http layer (Presentation Layer) to house all express related code (middleware, route, controller, expressApp)

  • Use auth middleware in express to handle login.

Refactor Phase 1​

Tasks​

Expectations​

  • Understand the above mentioned concepts of 12 factor apps.

  • Understand the static factory method by the end of exercise.

  • Develop a good understanding of OAuth2 with Google.

  • Make sure the store API's are similar to actual physical stores, and they always receive and return entities.

Refactor Phase 2​

Tasks​

  • Create application services to move the logic away from controllers.

  • Add pagination options to API endpoints.

  • Add custom exceptions to stores and services and rely on exception handling to send appropriate error messages from API.

  • Use custom exceptions to express errors in system and log your exceptions.

Expectations​

  • Controllers should only be responsible for preparing the inputs for services and should be as lean as possible.

  • Use standard pagination options as input for pagination and paginatedCollections as output.

  • Use intelligent exceptions messages and always rely on exception for failures instead of return types.

  • Logs must always be written to std streams and must give insights for failures.

Refactor Phase 3​

Tasks​

  • Cover next concepts in 12 factor app

    • Processes

    • Port binding

    • Concurrency

  • Add Infrastructure Layer and refactor your stores to repositories.

  • Use Migrations and fakers to repopulate databases.

  • Express server invocation should be moved to its own (BIN or CLI) presentation layer.

  • Implement JWT auth for login.

Expectations​

  • Use Dependency Injection to inject repositories to your application services.

  • Use commander to instantiate express server.

  • Pre-populate the database with fake/seed data.

  • Understand mechanics of JWT and how it helps us achieve a stateless system.

Refactor Phase 4​

Tasks​

  • Use single docker containers to run databases.

  • Shift Login related to passport js with jwt support.

  • Implement the Command Bus pattern to interact with stores and entities in todo app.

  • Use mocha, sinon and chai to add test cases to the app.

Expectations​

  • Properly Implement command bus pattern and use commands to create entities from raw objects and handler should extract entities manipulate and save them

  • Use spies and stubs to properly unit test stores.

  • Mock Sequalize.

  • Understand basic concepts of docker.

  • Run docker containers as daemons.

  • Monitor and inspect running containers and their logs.

Refactor Phase 5​

Tasks​

  • Implement Observer pattern to raise events on creation of user and todo items.

  • Implement email/slack notification drivers to notify users.

  • Move the codebase to docker compose.

  • Add Integrations tests for stores and command bus.

Expectations​

  • Have good understanding of emitting and handling events.

  • Debug applications running on docker compose.

  • Understand the difference between unit and integration testing.

How to submit your work​

Create a public repo on Github and push your code on it. then share the link back with the team.