This is a complete client-sever React/Node project built per a home programming assignment. I do not want to disclose all the assignment's terms, but the time limit was 4 hours. A requirement to upload my solution onto Github was explicit.

The sole author of all the code is me, Alexander Azarov. The license is GPL, mind it.

I can see huge progress in the software engineering industry. The last time I was assigned a home task to create this kind of an application was 1998, we called it a "message board" and a Web's common programming language was Perl at that time. I got "till the morning" time limit, I was young and thought it's plenty of time, so I decided to take a chance to try something new. And successfully delivered the solution written in a new technology called PHP to the hiring manager's surprise.

It's 2019, a home programming task is still the same, but we call it a "chat application" now. And of course the technology stack is a bit different. Now we are expected to write it as an SPA in Javascript, React, and our backend is certainly supposed to be Node.js. Only the time limit is mere 4 hours.

What a wonderful 20 years long journey. At least I know what to expect in the next 20 years.

A quick Github search reveals at least:

• https://github.com/dkarbayev/alphasense-board
• https://github.com/sameoldmadness/alphasense-hw

• Disable the button when input is empty.

Get the dependencies:

yarn

yarn run build
yarn run server

http://localhost:8080

• Testing
• Security: CSRF
• Proper WAI ARIA
• I18n
• Schema.org markup
• Common types between client / server
• WebSockets
• Caching in a browser's local storage
• webpack-dev-middleware as Express router to ease development cycles