English to Klingon Translator

Hi there! This is my entry to Jexia's Back-end Start Trek Test. The project was made using JavaScript and Node.js because they're the technologies I felt more comfortable with and I felt it wouldn't give a hard time to whoever is going to test this.

Running

First, make sure you have Node.js (I have tested it with v6.11.2) installed. If not you can get it from here.

Once Node is installed you can run the project this way:

$ git clone https://github.com/riquenunes/jexia-star-trek.git
$ cd jexia-star-trek
$ npm install
$ npm start %NAME%

Features

• Supports characters that are represented by more than one latin letter (gh, tlh)
• Supports numbers

About the code

index.js - application entry point. It gets the command line args, translates and searches for a character in stapi

klingonAlphabet.js - an simple module with an array of Latin letters that represent the Klingon Alphabet and a Regex that's able to match every character of pIqaD

klingonTranslator.js - where the magic happens!

stapi.js - module responsible for communicating with stapi

textParser.js - this module contains a function that takes a string and returns an array of Klingon characters (I call them "tokens" throughout the code)

tests - contains all the application tests

I also left some comments explaining some parts of the actual code. Feel free to check it out!

Hope you like it!