This is a coding challenge for prospective front-end and full-stack developer applicants applying to TechGuilds.

If you're unfamiliar with React, Facebook has put together a helpful tutorial that provides a quick introduction to the basics: https://reactjs.org/docs/hello-world.html

Goal:

Build a simple React app that allows viewing and interacting with a grid of photos from Unsplash

• Fork this repo into your GitHub account. Keep it public until we have been able to review it.
• Use npx create-next-app your_app_name to set up a Next.js application as shown here: https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/create-nextjs-app .
• Refer to the Unsplash API docs here to set up a developer account: https://unsplash.com/documentation.
• Display a grid of photos in your React app. Use the GET /photos endpoint from the Unsplash API to get a set of curated images.
• The grid of photos should preserve the aspect ratio of the photos it's displaying, meaning it shouldn't crop the image in any way.
• The grid should be responsive, and should work in both portrait and landscape orientations on both mobile and desktop browsers.
• The grid should support infinite scrolling, using a lazy-load strategy to fetch additional images as the user scrolls.
• You're free to use existing open source React components or Javascript packages/libraries from npm to complete this task.
• You're free to use any UI framework such as Tailwind, Material UI etc.
• Write necessary test cases.
• Deploy your app to Vercel or any other hosting provider. Refer to docs how to deploy Next.js app to vercel: https://vercel.com

Extra Points:

• Extra points if you use Typescript.
• When the user taps on a photo on the grid it should show the full photo in a full width lightbox popup with more information about the photo.
• The lightbox popup should be dismissible with a close button.
• Big bonus for full stack developers: Build photos table and an API endpoint, and consume it fro the front-end layer instead of unsplash. You can build it with either MongoDB, Node and express; or .NET stack SQL Server, and ASP.NET.

Evaluation:

• The app should build without errors (typically using npm run build). If there are necessary steps required to get it to compile, those should be covered in README.md.
• No crashes or bugs .
• The app should pass all test cases.
• The app should be deployed to any hosting provider and url of the app should be found in README.md.
• Code is easily understood and communicative (eg. comments, variable names, etc).
• GitHub commit history is consistent, easy to follow and understand.