Echosec Coding Exercise

This is a pre-interview coding exercise for the Echosec development team. As an Echosec developer You will be responsible for developing and maintaining features and data-sets for the Echosec open data search and aggregation products.

Echosec Search is a search and alerting tool for location-based social media. We provide an easy to use interface for open data analysists, security experts, journalists to find up to date crowdsourced information about real-world events.

Beacon sheds light on the dark web by combining indexes of TOR sites, paste-bin dumps, public discord and telegram chat logs into an advanced search interface for cybersecurity professionals.

We value a curious attitude towards discovering and delivering new open source data to our end customers. The purpose of the exercise is to create a common framework that utilizes many of the same patterns we use in our production applications to discuss during your technical interview. We encourage you to take this project in a direction that compels you. Expand and share your work on this however you like.

Task

Using the API of Ice and Fire, create a Vue.js application that allows users to search for A Song of Ice and Fire characters and display them within the application.

There are a number of comments within the code base labeled EXERCISE which are left up to the developer to implmeent.

We recomend first implementing the search functionality in SearchBarInput.vue and then working your way through App.vue and Results.vue.

Requirements

• Typing a character name in the search bar should show all results for that character.
• If the user hits enter with no character name, all results should be displayed from the API response.
• Display the name, alias, gender, culture, date of birth, date of death (if present), and allegiances for each character returned.
• How you style the application is entirely up to you. You may either use Vuetify or custom CSS.

Development Box

A recent version of node.js is required. The coding example was tested and run on v10.13.0.

To install the dependencies run npm install.

You can then run npm run serve to re-compile your changes in real time or npm run build to see the changes after the fact.

Resources

• API of Ice and Fire: https://anapioficeandfire.com/Documentation#characters
• Axios documentation: https://github.com/axios/axios
• Vuetify documentation: https://vuetifyjs.com/en/components/api-explorer
• Vue.js documentation: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/

Steps

• Fork the repository
• Clone the forked git repo to your local environment
• Install dependencies using npm install
• Compile code using npm run serve or npm run build
• Display results upon searching
• Comment your code
• Push your code to github
• Submit a pull request when done