Node Exercise

Mike Smith's submission for the Node part of the Solo code challenge. Exposes two endpoints on port 3000, /planets and people.

Building and Running

The submission is written in TypeScript, so it needs to be built before running.

• npm install
• npm run build
• npm start

NFRs

Performance

• The services make multiple requests simultaneously to reduce latency.

Maintainability

• The code is written in TypeScript. Some studies suggest that code in TypeScript tends to have fewer bugs than code in JavaScript.
• The app has a layered architecture, which is reflected by the file structure. Different modules are responsible for formatting requests and responses, for application logic, and for data access (in this case, the swapi-client file).

Notes

• I wrote the planet service to make all requests -- for planet pages and residents -- simultaneously. But that strategy was much more complicated, and, in my tests, no faster than the more synchronous approach I ultimately went with. I suspect my browser was throttling the requests.