In the case of duplicate books, do you still want me to package them both into boxes or do you want me to filter out any duplicates so that only one book is packaged instead of two?

Thanks,
Will

The provided example JSON document for our solution represents an object with a named fields that contain the packed boxes. Is this the only allowed format for the solution's generated JSON file, or could my solution represent the packed boxes as an array of boxes without the boxes being named fields?

This representation would look similar to:
[
{
"id": 1,
"totalWeight": 4.4,
"contents": [
{
"title": "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth",
"author": "Reza Aslan",
"price": "$16.89 USD",
"shipping_weight": "1.2 pounds",
"isbn10": 140006922
},
{
"title": "Pacific Rim: Man, Machines, and Monsters",
"author": "David S Cohen, Guillermo del Toro",
"price": "$27.83 USD",
"shipping_weight": "3.2 pounds",
"isbn10": 1608871827
}
]
},

...

Hi guys, thanks for setting this challenge. I just have a couple quick questions.

1. Is there a timeline associated with this project? Perhaps a deadline?
2. Am I allowed to use any boilerplate code to get the infrastructure setup for development? This is in regards to webpack and es6 and what not.
3. Is there a specific standard of authentication you'd like me to adhere to? Perhaps oauth? Or can I use any authentication necessary to make sure the stories that have been listed are completed?

My plan here was to roll out an application which uses either reactjs or vuejs for the view layer then express on the backend with bcrypt for storing passwords. This paired with mysql or postgres. Let me know if there is any problem with any of this.

Specifically, the NPM libraries 'jsonwebtoken' and 'express-jwt'

https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken

and

https://github.com/auth0/express-jwt

(This would be while Implementing the 'Identity' challenge)

I have a question about the output data structure. I am okay with the box and book hash structures but for the final hash (I called it shipment), there is a “box” key and I cannot have multiple “box” keys for each box because they will overwrite each time. Right now I have a shipment array filled with box objects. Is that okay? Or do you want me to rename the box keys to box1, box2, etc.

I am attaching my current answer for reference.