BookLover

My application is for people who enjoy reading. I wanted to combine search for books with recommendations from NYTimes Best Sellers.

Using this application, user can:

• view current best selling books by different categories
• search books by title, author or keyword
• create an account with a email and password, sign in and out of their account
• add book to "my books" list and remove it
• get a copy from Amazon or Google Play

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Technologies Used

• React.js
• PostgreSQL
• Webpack
• Node.js
• Express
• Babel
• HTML5
• CSS3

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This application was build querying two different APIs

• NYTimes The Books API used for query bestsellers by category
• Google Books APIs used for full description and search feature

Preview

My Books Page

Sign Up Modal

Log In Modal

Try the application live here

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Development

System Requirements

• Node.js 10 or higher
• PostgreSQL

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/yuliia-p/BookLover
cd BookLover

2. Install all dependencies with NPM.

npm install

3. Copy the .env.example into .env with your own API keys and database url

cp .env.example .env

4. Create a new database with PostgreSQL

createdb databaseName

5. Import the example database to PostgreSQL

npm run db:import

6. Build main.js script with npm.

npm run build

7. Start the application. You can view the app by opening http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

npm run dev