A Sails v1 application

Demo the app: cd weather-app && sails lift Test the app:

./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha ./test/controller.indexcontroller.js
./node_modules/bin/mocha ./test/helper.zip-lookup.js

Goal of the application is to allow searching for weather by zip code and displaying results using the DarkSky API.

• DarkSky API accepts latitude, longitude arguments in query
  • Use of another API may be necessary to translate zip code input to latitude, longitude
• If there is a need to look up the zip code, it may be good to use some sort of persistence (db, disk cache) to avoid repeated calls
• Functionality related to API calls should be extracted into a service layer
• Tests should cover the ability of the service layer to return data
• DarkSky API key should be stored in a server-side configuration file or within an environment variable, not committed to repository

• Web application initially loads current forecast information for 5 select zip codes across the contiguous US
  • San Diego, CA
  • Seattle, WA
  • Denver, CO
  • Portland, ME
  • Miami, FL
• Submission (POST) to backend handled by controller method
  • Backend services (SailsJS helpers) leveraged to
    • query/store the information for a zip code, city, latitude, and longitude
    • API call for zip code lookup
    • API call for weather forecast
• Result data may be displayed on a separate page, traditional MVC

• Implement VueJS Single Page app
  • axios call to backend API endpoint, consume JSON result
  • refresh page data
• Experiment with different taskrunner pipelines (Gulp)
  • SailsJS defaults to Grunt