This is a system created to propose a solution for a challenge made from Byrd. The original task can be found at /challenge folder.

To run this project you will need globally installed Node.js and their package manager called npm. I tested the system for node version 6.9.5 and npm version 5.6.0.

It also needed angular-cli version 1.6.8

As this project is a Front-End only and the proposition is also about Typescript, I choose Angular to get ahead with it.

In this context, make sense use the best tools available to accelerate the development and in Angular, the must have is angular-cli. This project was generated with Angular CLI version 1.6.8.

I have 2 diferent reasons to choose Boostrap 4 to improve the design. The most obvious is that Byrd is using it in their tech stack and the other is that it is a very popular framework.

With this choices I have the complete range of requested languages (HTML, CSS and Javascript,Typescript) covered.

• The system is structured using MVC pattern. The models are isolated in the /models folder that includes the ticket and the employee models.

• All the communication with the back-end is done using services. I created 2 of them: one to deal with tickets, named TicketService and another named EmployeeService. Their concern is the communication with API and they live in /src/app/services folder. Have both are probably a overkill for a small system like this one but I decided to go ahead with this for clarity purposes.

• The view is controlled directly from the Angular components and their (wonderful) css isolation.

• Obviously, the Employee model is needed because one of the requirements is to log in to edit the tickets. For deal with the registration of employees, I also included a tiny Admin interface at http://localhost:4200/admin.

• Since I am negotiating a Front-End position with them, I decided to not develop the Back-End of the system, for now. It can be done in the future, for demonstration purposes.

The code can be run using the development server. To do this, first you need to install the libraries using npm install and then ng testwill make the trick.

The website will be acessible at http://localhost:4200/.

As any angular-cli projectsm this one uses Karma as testing mechanism. You can just run ng test to execute the tests.

Because e2e tests are very time consumming to develop and not even mentioned in original proposition, I made the option to don't do it. It can be done, if needed.