Stylindex backend engineer challenge

challenge.md

Reading List API

Hello! Thank you for your interest in joining our back end engineering team at Stylindex :)

We ask all candidates to complete this short exercise to help us evaluate their suitability for the roles we are recruiting for. We recommend spending between 2 and 4 hours. You will have an opportunity to discuss your solution, and the choices you made at the next interview stage.

Challenge 1

Create a simple GraphQL API that fetches data from external storage

Acceptance Criteria

• Fetch data from https://storage.googleapis.com/development-data/recruitment/pokemons.json
• Root query should contain two fields: pokemons and pokemon
• Field pokemons should return a collection of Pokemon objects
• Field pokemons should accept an optional argument first and return only the first n pokemons
• Field pokemons should accept an optional sort argument that allows sorting pokemons by name (both ascending and descending)
• Field pokemon should accept either name or id as argument, and retrieve Pokemon object by name or id

Requirements

A good solution will

• satisfy the acceptance criteria
• have good test coverage
• use appropriate libraries
• be production ready

Challenge 2

Create a simple scraper that scrapes books from http://books.toscrape.com/

Acceptance criteria

• Scraper retrieves all 1000 books from website
• Each book should contain at least following data: title, rating, price, description, category
• Scraper should be able to output data in either json or jsonlines format

Requirements

We use Scrapy for scraping, but you are free to use libraries/framework that you are most comfortable with. A good solution will

• satisfy the acceptance criteria
• use appropriate libraries
• be production ready

Please put your solution on a repository hosting service such as GitHub or Bitbucket and don't forget to include a README file to tell us how to build and run the application :)