velocima / codingchallengegoogle

Coding Challenge - Attempt to Make Google

Google Clone Coding Challenge

The project is a simple clone of the google home and results pages.

Specification

• Your version of Google should have a homepage, with a logo, search bar and two buttons.
• Upon pressing one button an API call should be executed and users should be shown a page with ten results.
• Upon pressing the other, users should be taken to the page of one of the results.

Installation & Usage

Installation

• clone or download the repo.
• open terminal and navigate to server folder.
• Run npm install to install server dependecies.
• open terminal and navigate to client folder.
• Run npm install to install client dependecies.

Usage

• Run npm start to launch the server.
• Run npm start to launch the client.

Technologies

Frontend

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

Backend

• Javascript / NodeJs
• NPM
  • Express
  • Cors
  • Morgan
  • Google-it
  • Nodemon
  • Jest
  • Supertest

API Endpoints

• GET /
  • returns Hello World!
• GET /search
  • requires search query parameter
  • responsds with JSON:

{
	results: [
		{
			title: 'string title',
			link: 'string href',
			snippet: 'string snippet',
		}, // ...
	];
}

Wins & Challenges

Wins

• Finding Google-it simplified the back-end

Challenges

Licence

none