Shopping Cart Challenge

The purpose of this challenge is to develop a functioning shopping cart. It should demonstrate your ability with several languages in the typical Web development stack. Build the application in such a way that you would feel comfortable putting it in production and comfortable maintaining.

You can use any tools, framework, dependencies, or methodology you choose. If you use a framework or dependencies, be sure to separate them from the source code you actually write.

⚠️ Additional instructions may be provided to tweak these requirements. For example, a specific language or framework may be required or restricted, depending on the focus of the challenge.

To be clear, this shopping cart is like any other; it should provide a summary of items in the cart, as well as their quantities, subtotal, grand total, including GST and QST. It is a step before actually checking out, when payment and address must be registered. There is no need to build a product catalog and mechanism for adding items to a cart. Assume there are products in a cart already.

Functionality

• The cart's content is stored in a database
• Enable the user to adjust the quantities of the items in the cart
• State is maintained, per session

Minimum Technology Stack

• PHP or Python
• HTML
• JavaScript
• CSS

Provide the following

• Source code

  • Hosted on GitHub

• Installation instructions

  • Example: utilitizing dependency management configuration via Composer or PiP.

• Tools used for development

• Online demo

Setup Instructions

There is a live demo available at https://carttest.johnathonwood.com

Setup Instructions

• open a terminal, cd to base dir of where you want it installed:
• git clone [email protected]:watchwood/carttest.git
• Create Homestead.yaml file for project in root dir, based on included example. Map the information in that file to the conditions of your local setup
• create .env file for project in root dir, based on included example.
• composer install
• vagrant up
• vagrant ssh (to access VM internally, password is secret)
• cd code
• php artisan key:generate
• php artisan migrate --seed
• php artisan optimize:clear

Relevant Code Files

• resources/views/home.blade.php
• public/main.css
• app/Http/Controllers/Controller.php
• app/Http/Controllers/ApiController.php
• app/Models/CartItem.php
• app/Models/Item.php

Other Notes

• The project was written using Laravel, Vue, and Axios
• VSCode was used as the IDE, and local development was done with a Laravel Homestead VN.
• Laravel's default bootstrapping code (NOT Bootstrap the front end tools, to be clear) was largely left in place.