Timestamp Microservice

Objective

Build a full stack app that is functionally similar to this: https://timestamp-ms.herokuapp.com/.

Requirements

• User Story: I can pass a string as a parameter, and it will check to see whether that string contains either a unix timestamp or a natural language date (example: January 1, 2016).

• User Story: If it does, it returns both the Unix timestamp and the natural language form of that date.

• User Story: If it does not contain a date or Unix timestamp, it returns null for those properties.

Notes

Requirements:

• NodeJS
• NPM
• Docker (optional)

Run using NPM:

# install dependencies
npm install

# run app at localhost:8000
npm start

Run using Docker:

# build image
docker build -t pbgnz/timestamp-microservice .

# run image
docker run -p 8000:8000 -d pbgnz/timestamp-microservice

Usage

# natural language date request
http://localhost:8000/Dec 14, 2015

# unix date request
http://localhost:8000/1450137600

# expected response
{ "unix": 1450137600, "natural": "December 15, 2015" }