Huge Navigation Exercise

as completed by @jonathanmuth between February 17th 2015 and February 23rd 2015.

Tech Stack

• jQuery: Loads the JSON via AJAX request and enables UI interactions.
• React.js: Parses received JSONP and creates a dynamic multi-level navigation and other UI components.

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Original task

Overview

This exercise will have the candidate build a responsive site navigation driven by an AJAX request.

Here are the guidelines for this exercise

• No frameworks or libraries (this means jquery).
• Chrome compliance is all that's required, all functions and features available in Chrome are in play.
• Nav must be responsive.
• Code must run after the following command, please ensure your code runs as you expect it to from a fresh checkout with these commands before submission.

$ npm i && npm start

Nice to haves:

• Adherence to accessibility standards
• Documentation
• Unit and/or E2E tests

At a high level the navigation will have two main states

• <768px: Mobile. Hamburger icon will display in the top-left of the page. Clicking the hamburger will cause a card to slide in and overlay the content from the left. The card will contain nav and sub-nav items defined in the JSONP response
• >= 768px: Desktop. The nav will display as a horizontal nav. Top level nav items will display sub-nav items when clicked. No hamburger will be shown.

Version

0.1.0

Files

• Mockup - Illustrator file describing how the nav should behave
• server.js - node.js server that will host the site and provie the api to construct the nav

API

• GET /api/nav.json - returns a JSON response representing the items in the nav.

Get Started

git clone git@github.com:hugeinc/NavExercise.git
cd NavExercise
npm install
npm start

Design Specifications

Typography

• Primary Navigation 21/48 HUGE Avant Garde Bold
• Secondary Navigation 16/48 Galaxie Copernicus Book
• Headline (Desktop) 120/132 HUGE Avant Garde Bold
• Body Copy (Desktop) 24/36 Galaxie Copernicus Book
• Headline (Mobile) 44/48 HUGE Avant Garde Bold
• Body Copy (Mobile) 14/24 Galaxie Copernicus Book
• Copyright (Mobile) 12/16 Helvetica Neue Regular

Color

• Magenta #ec008c
• Light Gray #eee
• Translucent Black rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)

Measurements

Measurements are specified in pixels. Dimensions are fluid unless specified.

Interactions

Desktop

• On hover, Primary Navigation reverses color (white/magenta).
• On click, if item contains a URL, Primary Navigation navigates to a new page.
• On click, if item contains other items, Secondary Navigation appears (see Desktop, Secondary Navigation).
• Menu appears containing Secondary Navigation.
• Translucent mask appears over content, behind menu.
• On hover in, Secondary Navigation changes color (magenta/light gray).
• On click, Secondary navigates to a new page.
• On click outside of menu, menu and mask are hidden.

Mobile

• When a user clicks the open navigation icon (“hamburger”), the navigation should “push” from left to right.
• The HUGE logo and navigation toggle slide left to right.
• The open navigation icon should change to the close navigation icon (“x”).
• Translucent mask appears over content, right of navigation.
• The Primary Navigation should include link items and menu items.
• When a user hovers a Primary Navigation item, it should change color (magenta/light gray).
• When a user clicks a Primary Navigation link item, the browser should navigate to a new page.
• When a user clicks a Primary Navigation menu item, the Secondary Navigation should “push” down, the chevron should rotate * 180°.
• When a user hovers a Secondary Navigation item, it should change color (magenta/light gray).
• When a user clicks a Secondary Navigation item, browser should navigate to a new page.
• When a user clicks outside of the navigation, the navigation should close.
• When the navigation closes:
  • the menu should “pull” from right to left
  • the logo and toggle button should “slide” from right to left
  • the close icon should change to the open icon
  • the mask should be hidden