Interview Environment Check

This verifies your machine can run the interview stack. It should take about 5 minutes.

Requirements:

• Node.js 20 or later
• npm

Setup

npm install
npm run check

If all checks pass:

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000. You should see a table of biology and immunology books, green status badges, and a message showing how many books were loaded from the local SQLite database.

The app uses:

• A React frontend served by Vite on port 3000
• An Express API on port 3001
• A local SQLite database stored in server/data/app.db

IDE Setup

Open this project in your editor and verify:

• Autocomplete works — hover over Book in server/db.ts or frontend/App.tsx
• Type errors show — try changing year: number to year: string and check for red squiggles
• Go-to-definition works — cmd/ctrl-click on getBooks in server/index.ts