takeaway-homework-assignment

Takeaway Homework Assignment

“Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There’s no easy way around this.” ~ Anthony McCarten

Introduction

This document outlines the process I went through whilst implementing the “homework” assignment I received from Takeaway.

To view the end result visit: https://blog.pother.ca/takeaway-homework-assignment/web/

Based on my my critique of the assignment I have created a version of the assigment text which offers some improvements.

Implementation Steps taken

1. Dowload, unzip and read the assignment (see my critique).
2. Research Takeaway corporate identity (see style).
3. Build the main UI.
4. Build a UI component to represent a restaurant.
5. Add some color and branding to the UI.
6. Create logic to generate static JSON files for the available sort scenarios. (see generate.php)
7. Adds concern about the “Top Restaurants” formula (see the “Bonus assignment” section of my critique.)
8. Add logic to populate the Restaurant List in the UI from the sample.json (see list.js).
9. Add logic to populate the sort options in the UI (see sortOptions.js).
10. Moves HTML into templates for JS re-use.
11. Connects JS logic to HTML (see application.js)
12. Adds search functionality (see jquery.filterFor.js).
13. Adds logic to filter by Restaurant State (see filterTabs.js)
14. Adds logic to mark restaurants as favorite. (see favorites.js)

Implementation Choices

• I have chosen to use the CSS framework to quickly have something decent-looking setup.
• I have chosen to use CSS custom properties (also know as “CSS variables”). In a production environment a pre-compiler would be used to make sure that older broswer are also able to use the created CSS.
• The HTML class attribute contains both framework classes and custom ones. A pipe character | is added to more easily distinguish between both. Please note that the | can not be accessed as a class as, in the context of a CSS selector, the pipe charater is used as a namespace separator.
• I have chosen to us BEM as the naming scheme for CSS classes.
• As part of the sample application branding I have added a logo.
• Thuisbezorgd.nl uses jQuery 1.12.4. I have chosen to use jQuery too, instead of vanilla JS. I did choose to use a newer version.
• I have chosen to have the restaurants sorted by “Top Restaurant” by default as this makes the most sense from a business perspective.
• Instead of also implementing a server-side application, I have chosen to generate the JSON responses such an application would return.
• I have chosen to use a jQuery search plugin I had lying around from an earlier project rather than write something new or go looking for the most appropriate plugin.
• As this application does not have a backend, I have chosen to store favorites in the browsers LocalStorage.