This repository houses the CLI used in frontend coding exercises to upload submissions.

The CLI is published to NPM, included as a devDependency of the exercise and run with an included npm script (npm run submit). It uploads the folder as a TAR archive to a Google Cloud function, which creates a private Codesandbox in our Codesandbox Pro workspace. The URL of the private sandbox is returned to the CLI, which prints the URL and asks the candidate to send us an email containing the URL.

The server can be found in the server/ folder and is deployed manually as this Google Cloud Function by simply copy-pasting the built JavaScript into the web UI.

The server is authenticated through an environment variable CODESANDBOX_TOKEN. This is a JWT that can be obtained through the Codesandbox CLI (npm i -g codesandbox) using codesandbox token (after logging in once with codesandbox login). It must be generated for an admin member of our workspace, so it can create sandboxes. Important: This token expires after one month and needs to be renewed manually. There is currently no workaround for this.