Remote Backend Developer Case Study

install instructions

run following commands:

1. composer install
2. php artisan migrate
3. php artisan app:initial-app
4. php artisan app:fetch-news ( for test on local server)

• there is a laravel schedule task that can be used for production server. it runs every hour and fetches news. use this cron entry: * * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

4. php artisan php artisan queue:work

use the following env values for the sake of test:

(I added them to .env.example for easy setup)

API keys

NEWS_SOURCE_NYT_API_KEY=5bD4StZTmIKQnsNDKJmoDJcyh4txSA6b NEWS_SOURCE_THEGUARDIAN_API_KEY=67bac5a6-6d7b-4165-9b3e-209fad49167b NEWS_SOURCE_NEWSAPIORG_API_KEY=11030aee1ac1490ca379d95e167c0a9b

Article fetch endpoints

NEWS_SOURCE_NYT_URL=https://api.nytimes.com/svc/news/v3/content/all/all.json NEWS_SOURCE_THEGUARDIAN_URL=https://content.guardianapis.com/search NEWS_SOURCE_NEWSAPIORG_URL=https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines

Fetching sections endpoints

NEWS_SOURCE_NYT_SECTIONS_URL=https://api.nytimes.com/svc/news/v3/content/section-list.json NEWS_SOURCE_THEGUARDIAN_SECTIONS_URL=https://content.guardianapis.com/sections

API documentation(OpenAPI Specification)

• document use any OpenAPI viewer to see the doc (eg. swagger)

Should be Implemented

• Preventing of saving repetitive articles
• Tests
• Dockerizing

Selected News Sources

• newsapi.org
• The guardian
• New York Times

How It works

for every news source each one puts ProcessArticleFetch jobs to fetch the content then the result will be added to queue to be processed by ProcessArticle job.