This document is the specification sheet for your work sample.
The application you have to create is a simple product inquiry web.
Where a customer can make an inquiry regarding a customized design of jewelry.
Therefore, you have to take in account the following points:
- You can only use the stable version Laravel or Lumen framework
- The well integration of testing is explicitly desired
- Strive for good code coverage
- You may use any library
- Quality over quantity
If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask us.
Save all the data in the MySQL database or SQLite.
Use background processing for a complex or long-running request.
You have to create the relational data model by yourself with regard to the requirements.
Take care of a structured naming.
Cache wisely!
Bonus point for well implemented design pattern.
Strive to create a testable frontend.
Bonus point for implementing SPA
The root page of the web is the inquiry page.
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A customer can submit an inquiry right away without have to log in
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Take care of abusive user, every unique IP address only allowed to submit data once every 10 seconds. Implement a mechanism to prevent this on server side
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User can attach a reference to their design, it could be an image or link to a website
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If the inquiry contains a reference to a website, that website will be fetched by our system and save as an image. We only scrape a well formed html and web scraping happen on server side. Don't forget to store the web scraping metadata!
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After an inquiry submitted, an email notification send to customer contains a link to a page where they can view their inquiry.
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We don't want to leak our data to the world, so instead of giving out the inquiry identifier use a unique token associated to that inquiry and only valid for 1 month.
Bonus point for implementing personalized recommendation
This page only intended for admin to access all submitted data.
- After after logging in, user will be directed to their intended page or home.
After logging in, all submitted inquiries will be shown in a table pagination.
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When a new inquiry submitted, it will be pushed to the table right away, so admin don't have to refresh the page.
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The most recent inquiry will be shown first
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Cut description content to 20 words and postfix with '...'
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A click on the row will redirect to the detail view
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Six inquiries are shown per page and sorted by date
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You can switch pagination by clicking on the links below the list
That image will be shown at inquiry detail.
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Get a list of all inquiries from a customer by clicking
See alllink. -
A click on a reference image will show a pop up with that image inside.
