Google Books Search

Table of Contents

• Description
• User Story
• Acceptance Criteria
• MVP
• Reference Links
  • Google Books Live App
  • Google Books GitHub Repo
• Installation Instructions
  • Project Technologies
  • Node Dependencies
• Demo
• Licensing

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Description

Google Books Platform allows the user search and view saved google books.

• Search - User can search for books via the Google Books API and render them here. User has the option to "View" a book, bringing them to the book on Google Books, or "Save" a book, saving it to the Mongo database.

• Saved - Renders all books saved to the Mongo database. User has an option to "View" the book, bringing them to the book on Google Books, or "Delete" a book, removing it from the Mongo database.

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User Story

As a user, I want to be able to search for books, view book details, and save it.

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Acceptance Criteria

• As a User I can search google books
• As a User I can view google book details page
• As a User I can save google books
• As a User I can delete google books

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MVP

• Allow user to be able to search google books
• Allow user to be able to view google book details page
• Allow user to be able to save google books
• Allow user to be able to delete google books

Reference Links

Link to Google Books deployed on Heroku - Google Books Live App

Link to GitHub Repo used for application development - Google Books GitHub Repo

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Installation Instructions

To test this project, simply follow these steps:

Pre-requirements: Have an available connection to Mongo database

1. Make sure node.js is installed in your machine. If not is installed in your machine click here to download the application.

2. Run npm install or npm i in your terminal in order to install all required node modules listed in the package.json.

3. Clone the following project into a your local file system git clone https://github.com/ystamaritq/books-search.git

4. Then run node server.js in order to start locally the App/

Project Technologies

The Google Books is based on MERN stack which is the combination of technologies used to create a web application. MERN includes four open-source components: MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js where:

• MongoDB: A cross-platform document database
• Express: A back-end web application framework, minimalist web framework for node.
• React: A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
• Node.js: A cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment

The dependencies listed below are all the NPM packages used throughout this project.

• mongoose - Object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment
• antd - Ant Design React UI CSS library
• google-books-search - A simple Node.js client for the Google Books API.
• react-router-dom - DOM bindings for React Router

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Demo

The following images demonstrates the application functionality:

Google Books Demo Images (click to expand)

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Licensing

"The code in this project is licensed under MIT license."

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**developed with love by **@ystamaritq****