Elucidat Fullstack code challenge

This code challenge will ask you to demonstrate your Laravel and React experience.

Background

Your task is to create a simple web application that allows users to search for and view information about books using Laravel and React. You will be working with a JSON that contains data about books.

One of your colleagues has kindly done some setup for you:

• They have much of the setup containerised in Docker
• Installed Laravel with PHP 8
• Set up a Migration & Seed data, for Book titles, authors and summaries. But they do not run automatically!
• Set up 1 endpoint to get all the books.
• Made an empty React project in the client directory

Requirements

• The application should enable users to search for books based on its Title OR Author.
• It should enable users to sort by published date (A new concept).
• It should allow users to input new books.
• It should have some tests in both the React code and in the Laravel code
  • To save time & effort, it's acceptable to limit the tests to 5 different tests.
  • Think careful about which tests are most important, and which demonstrate your skills best.
• Style the application and make it look professional and user-friendly.

Guidelines

• The task should take between 1-2 hours.
• You are free to use any third-party libraries or packages that you feel are appropriate for the task.

Getting started

To get started, clone the repository:

• Run docker compose up to get started with the laravel site
• Then cd client; npm install; npm start to start the React app