In this coding simulation you are being asked to develop the backend for ‘Trax’ - a milage tracking application developed using Laravel, Vue.js and Vuetify.js.

The front-end of the application has already been developed and consists of the following features:

• User registration and authentication (Note: No back-end work is required for user management. This work is already complete.)
• Ability for a logged in user to add a car to Trax
• Ability for a logged in user to remove a car from Trax
• Ability for a logged in user to view a list of all their cars
• Ability for a logged in user to add a trip to Trax specifying which car was used.
• Ability for a logged in user to a view a list of all their trips

The frontend of the application currently makes requests to a set of mock endpoints implemented in-line in /routes/api.php, with each mock endpoint sending back statically defined JSON objects. It is your task to develop a functional API for Trax. You are being ask to:

• Design the Data-Model for Trax and create corresponding Database Migrations.
• Implement the Eloquent Model Layer
• Design a RESTful API to be consumed by the front-end using the mock end-points as a guide for the expected data format.
• Implement the Controller(s) for the API and leverage them in the routes.
• Update the frontend’s /resources/assets/js/traxAPI.js file so that the frontend makes uses of your new API. Ideally, you should showcase your Laravel experience by using as many Laravel specific features as possible. For example: Scopes, Resources, Policies, Unit Tests, etc.

Perform the following steps to get started with the coding simulation.

• Install Docker Desktop from https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop
• Clone this repo onto your development machine.

If you have Docker version 20.10.14 or higher, please do:

DockerDesktop > Preferences > General > OFF the checkbox "Use Docker Compose V2"

Setup your working environment by executing the following commands:

cd <trax repo directory>
git submodule update --init --recursive
cp laradock-env laradock/.env
cp createdb.sql laradock/mariadb/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/. 
cd laradock
docker-compose build --no-cache nginx workspace mariadb
docker-compose up -d nginx mariadb workspace
docker-compose exec workspace composer install
docker-compose exec workspace npm install
docker-compose exec workspace php artisan migrate

If You have any issues with python libraries (on MacOS M1 computers) before npm install run:

docker-compose exec workspace apt-get update
docker-compose exec workspace apt-get install python

At this point you can open http://localhost:8888/ and start using the mock-API backed application. As a first step, you should click ‘Register’ in the upper right to create an account and enter the application.

Should you make changes to any of the JS files, such as /resources/assets/js/traxAPI.js, you can run the following in order to compile your changes

cd <trax repo directory>/laradock
docker-compose exec workspace npm run dev 

Or to watch for any JS changes you can run

cd <trax repo directory>/laradock
docker-compose exec workspace npm run watch 

Commit your changes locally and when finished, publish your repo on your public bitbucket or github account.

GOOD LUCK!