Interview-Sample-App

Architecture

This is an AngularJS application, it also contains some server-side node.js stuff to serve zipcode data.

• Angular app is as :

  • Scripts/app.js defines the angular app
  • mainController and detailController are the controllers of the 2 routes defined in app.js
  • zipService stands as an ng factory, contains functions which makes http requests to get specific datas and also returns promises
  • Views/*.html files are the 2 different partial pages used for 2 routes

• Server side is as :

  • server-app folder contains the server side stuff
    • data.json contains all zipcodes of the Dallas city
    • dataService.js contains a simple restify app that reads data from the json file and stands as a RESTful service to serve that data
  • You need to run the restify app so that the angular app can get data from the backend service, to do this, cd into server-app folder, type node dataService.js on your cli

• Other things you should know :

  • ignored node_modules folder and it's contents that you'll need to run the app, to install these, type npm install on your cli
  • index.html is the entry point of the app.

Other Third Party Stuff

• Zipcode Api
  • I use the free plan which restricts me to make only 50 get requests. More info here
  • To Get location information by zipcode : https://www.zipcodeapi.com/rest/APP_ID/info.json/ZIP/degrees
  • To Get all the zipcodes according to a city/state : https://www.zipcodeapi.com/rest/APP_ID/city-zips.json/CITY/STATE

  • I also included my own api_key, exposed to public, which should be noted