Restaurant Reservations

This is a Node.js and Express website that accepts and lists restaurant reservations.

The backend contains intentional mistakes, like weak validation on email addresses. Inconsistencies in coding style are also intentional.

Getting Started

npm install
npm start

The server runs on port 3000.

There are three routes:

• http://localhost:3000/ - homepage
• http://localhost:3000/reservations - submit a reservation booking request
• http://localhost:3000/admin - view all booking requests; basic auth login/password admin

The server persists using a SQLite3 database named database.sqlite in the site root.

Windows users

You may need to install some dependencies on your machine prior to the installation. Open VSCode with admin privileges.

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
npm install -g node-gyp
npm rebuild

Development

Debugging

This project uses https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug for development logging. To start nodemon and enable logging:

npm run debug

FAQ

• Q: Why didn't you store the time submitted?
  • A: I wanted to reduce the number of fields and simplify testing.
• Q: Wouldn't it be easier if the form submitted a datetime string instead of building and parsing one?
  • A: Yes, it would, but the form logic is simpler. Either way, someone has to do the work.
• Q: Why did you mix a callback and a Promise in lib/reservations.js?
  • A: Joi doesn't support Promises, but it does support callbacks. I wanted to show how to test both kinds of asynchronous code.
• Q: How'd you handle cross-platform support?
  • A: Avoided relative directories, used cross-env to transform environmental variables.

Credits

This is an adaptation of a WordPress site hosted at http://587672.youcanlearnit.net/

The conversion:

• Archive original with wget
• Strip out unrelated functionality
• Reorganize JavaScript and Stylesheets into logical directories
• Converted HTML into Jade / Pug templates using http://html2jade.org/

The front end should be mostly unchanged from the original.