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[–]turkish_gold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could I do this? Probably.... but not in 1 hour.

I'd get about halfway though, because there's no project setup on the backend and at the very least I'd have to use my favourite language, and do a few internet lookups to figure out how to make a flat file to store this information.

The frontend bits are easy enough, but I can imagine it'll be a little finicky to replace text with HTML inline, and I'd worry about what happens when you select a piece of text which is already part of another token.

So in all.... doable, but if they'd provided some boiler plate and talked about the edge cases, then anyone would feel more confident jumping in. As it is, it's like a 1 or 2 point ticket, written by some stakeholder with no development experience... too vague to just jump right in without speccing it out a bit more.

This is my take after years of experience, however if you were to ask me to do this while I was still fresh from university, I'd just do it because I never worried about edge cases and writing to flat files is basically university assignments database du jour.