Interview challenge : getMovieTitles

Myriad Systems.

To solve this challenge, write an HTTP GET method to retrieve information from a particular movie database.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48448432/fragment-of-missing-code-in-the-solution-movie-titles-complete-a-challenge-more

function getMovieTitlesData(title, page = 1) {
   const url = 'https://jsonmock.hackerrank.com/api/movies/search/?Title=' + title + '&page=' + page;
   console.log('URL:',url);
   const titles = [];
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      fetch(url, {
        method: 'get',
      }).then((response) => {
        return response.json();
      }).then((jsondata) => {
        for (let i = 0; i < jsondata.data.length; i++) {
           titles.push(jsondata.data[i].Title);
      }
      var total_pages = Number(jsondata.total_pages); 
      var curpage = Number(jsondata.page); 
      resolve({
         titles : titles,
         page : page,
         total_pages : total_pages
      });
    }).catch((error) => {
      console.log("Failure", error);
    })
  })

}


function getMovieTitles(substr) {
   const promises = [];
   const titles = []; 
   getMovieTitlesData(substr).then(result => {
     titles.push(...result.titles);
     for (let i = result.page + 1; i <=result.total_pages; i++) {
        promises.push(getMovieTitlesData(substr, i));
     }
     Promise.all(promises).then(datas => {
       datas.forEach(data => {
          titles.push(...data.titles);
       });
       console.log(titles.sort());

     });
  })
}

getMovieTitles('spiderman');

 

 

ES6 / ES2015 Additions

Arrow functions (or fat functions)?Arrow functions (or fat functions)

An arrow function expression is a syntactically compact alternative to a regular function expression, although without its own bindings to the this, arguments, super, or new.target keywords. Arrow function expressions are ill suited as methods, and they cannot be used as constructors.

The key difference, despite being shorter to write, is that arrow functions do not create their own value for ‘this’.


If the function body contains just a single statement, you can omit the brackets and write all on a single line:

const myFunction = () => doSomething()

https://flaviocopes.com/javascript-arrow-functions/

(parameters) => { statements }

Arrow functions and Lexical this

https://hackernoon.com/javascript-es6-arrow-functions-and-lexical-this-f2a3e2a5e8c4

Template Strings / Template Literals


https://wesbos.com/javascript-template-strings/

Object Destructuring

https://dev.to/sarah_chima/object-destructuring-in-es6-3fm

Adding to Array

[…oldArray, itemToAdd]

A simple todo app in javascript

Asked in Box onsite interview. With a node.js server on backend. 

$().ready(function() {
   $('#add').on('click', addTask);
   $('#tasks').on('click', markComplete);
   // Alternative way
   // var tasksElement = document.getElementById('tasks');
   // tasksElement.addEventListener('click', markComplete);
   //document.getElementById('task-input').onkeydown = function(e){
   $('#task-input').on('keydown', function(e) {
       if(e && e.keyCode == 13){
            addTask();
       }
   });

   function renderTask(result) {
        var checkboxContainerId = 'check' + result.id;
        var taskTextId = 'tasktext-' + result.id;
        if (result.done == '1') {
            checkedState = ' checked ';
        } else {
            checkedState = '';
        }
        taskHtml = '
  • ';
        taskHtml += '';
        taskHtml += '' + result.data + '
    • ';
        $('#tasks').append(taskHtml);
   }

   function taskAdded(result) {
        renderTask(result);
        $('#task-input').val('');
   }

   function renderResults(results) {
        results.forEach(renderTask);
   }

   function addTask(e) {
       url = 'http://localhost:9898/todo/tasks/create';
       inputData = $('#task-input').val();

       if (!inputData) {
           return;
       }
       $.ajax({
           url: url,
           type: "POST",
           data: {data: inputData} ,
           success: taskAdded,
       });
    }

    function markComplete(e) {
        var done;
        if (e.target && e.target.matches("input.task-checkbox")) {
            var taskId = $(e.target).attr('task-id');
            if ($(e.target).is(":checked")) {
                done = "1";
            } else {
                done = "-1";
            }
            var editUrl = 'http://localhost:9898/todo/tasks/' + taskId + '/edit';
            $.ajax({
               url: editUrl,
               type: "POST",
               data: {done: done},
               success: function(result) {
               }
            });
        }
    }

    var getTasksUrl = 'http://localhost:9898/todo/tasks';
    $.ajax({
       url: getTasksUrl,
       type: "GET",
       success: renderResults,
    });
}
);