First, I would like to say thanks to the IBM Design team for the opportunity to join the IBM Design family. I had a lot of fun working on this coding assignment and I look forward to any challenges presented to me as a potential IBM Design developer.
I used Backbone.js to create an MV* architecture. This allowed me to iterate ideas quickly and take advantage of it's Events infrastructure. Backbone.js is also a nice to use for this simple application as it is a very transparent and flexible framework so debugging is a breeze for me.
Other tools I used included Sass and Autoprefixer implementing an Atomic/BEM structure, Webpack with Babel for ES6-syntax compiling, and few more packages for the build and serve process.
To build or serve this application, you need the latest version of stable Node.js and NPM.
- Install packages
$ npm install
- To serve
$ npm start
- Or to build
$ npm run build
This process will generate an app/ directory that is used by the application.
My goal for the weekend was to develop a minimum viable product to showcase my skills and expertise. I focused on delivering a functioning application as well as optimizations on performance, aesthetics, and user experience. I created some issues to show enhancements that I would have liked to make with more time.
Enjoy!
This application was developed for IBM Design