Bedrock

Scaffolding and example code for a simple app (API only, no UI). Includes:

• A Flask app with /ping endpoint
• A Postgres database

Development tips

• This repo uses Docker Compose. Get the site running locally with docker compose up --build. Test that it's working by navigating to http://localhost:8080/ping.
• The Flask web server is set up to auto-reload on changes
• To interact with the service, use a REST client like Postman, or use cURL on your command line.

Example interaction

$ curl localhost:8080/ping
{
  "message": "Ping!"
}

Warm-up exercise

If you want an idea for a warm-up exercise to get familiar with modifying the code here are some ideas:

• Add a /view endpoint that returns a JSON of the first 100 entries of an arbitrary Postgres table (ignoring the safety implications of this...)
  • This should get you more comfortable with using Flask + SQLAlchemy
  • Might even come in handy during the interview itself!
  • When the app initializes, it will create a dummy_data table in Postgres with the following contents

    foo	bar	baz
    1	"bar1"	"blah"
    2	"bar2"	"halb"