linkinmedo

Front-end Assignment

Github Repos Compare

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Please carefully read the full document before you start working

Problem statement

Create an application that helps users find public repositories hosted on Github and compare their stats.

linkinmedo

function parse_signed_request(signed_request, secret) {
    const encoded_data = signed_request.split(".",2);
    // decode the data
    const sig = encoded_data[0];
    let buffer = new Buffer(encoded_data[1], "base64");
    const json = buffer.toString("ascii");
    const data = JSON.parse(json); // ERROR Occurs Here!

    // check algorithm - not relevant to error
    if (!data.algorithm || data.algorithm.toUpperCase() != "HMAC-SHA256") {