We’ve put together a small piece of work which is similar to the type of projects we take on every day at Ghost. It should take around 5-10 hours to complete.

Please work on this in a public (but obscurely named) GitHub repository, and send us a link to the repository as well as a self-hosted working demo via the application form on careers.ghost.org.

Discussions

Create a new standalone app that represents a single article page, and allows someone to submit comments and replies-to-comments, as well as upvote any comments they like.

Below is a Figma design to work from:

https://www.figma.com/embed?embed_host=notion&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.figma.com%2Ffile%2FYisi8jzU9vzdhTuw4PnevW%2FCoding-Challenge%3Fnode-id%3D0%253A1

Tasks

There are two separate parts to the coding challenge: The MVP, and V2.

The MVP

• Front-end: submit and display comments/upvotes in vanilla JS or jQuery
• Back-end: store a list of comments and upvotes
• Don’t worry about threading comments, just do a single list.
• Tag this work as a GitHub release: “V1”

V2

• Migrate the display of upvotes to React
• Make the display of new upvotes real-time (e.g. if a new upvote is added from another page)
• Update the back and front end to support 1 level of comment nesting.