/reactnd-project-myreads

Starter Code for the React MyReads Project

Primary LanguageJavaScript

MyReads Project

This is a project for Udacity's React Fundamentals course. Udacity provided with a starter code template in order to save time by providing a static example of the CSS and HTML markup that may be used, but without any of the React code that is needed to complete the project.

#Functionallity: The user can:

  1. categorize each book to be "currently reading", "read","want to read" and none 2.user can search for books and catogorize them when results are shown

TL;DR

To get started developing right away:

  • install all project dependencies with npm install
  • start the development server with npm start

What You're Getting

├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── README.md - This file.
├── SEARCH_TERMS.md # The whitelisted short collection of available search terms for you to use with your app.
├── package.json # npm package manager file. It's unlikely that you'll need to modify this.
├── public
│   ├── favicon.ico # React Icon, You may change if you wish.
│   └── index.html # DO NOT MODIFY
└── src
    ├── App.css # Styles for your app. Feel free to customize this as you desire.
    ├── App.js # This is the root of your app. Contains a composition of all component of the apps.
    ├── bookShelf.js # This is the shelf component that contains books. ech shelf is a categoty thathad title props and books( array of books) props
    ├── searchBook.js # This searchBook component to look for books.
    ├── App.test.js # Used for testing. Provided with Create React App. Testing is encouraged, but not required.
    ├── BooksAPI.js # A JavaScript API for the provided Udacity backend. Instructions for the methods are below.
    ├── icons # Helpful images for your app. Use at your discretion.
    │   ├── add.svg
    │   ├── arrow-back.svg
    │   └── arrow-drop-down.svg
    ├── index.css # Global styles. You probably won't need to change anything here.
    └── index.js # You should not need to modify this file. It is used for DOM rendering only.

Backend Server

To simplify the development process, Udacity has provided a backend server for me to develop against. The provided file BooksAPI.js contains the methods needed to perform necessary operations on the backend:

getAll

Method Signature:

getAll()
  • Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing a collection of book objects.
  • This collection represents the books currently in the bookshelves in your app.

update

Method Signature:

update(book, shelf)
  • book: <Object> containing at minimum an id attribute
  • shelf: <String> contains one of ["wantToRead", "currentlyReading", "read"]
  • Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing the response data of the POST request

search

Method Signature:

search(query)
  • query: <String>
  • Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing a collection of a maximum of 20 book objects.
  • These books do not know which shelf they are on. They are raw results only. You'll need to make sure that books have the correct state while on the search page.

Important

The backend API uses a fixed set of cached search results and is limited to a particular set of search terms, which can be found in SEARCH_TERMS.md. That list of terms are the only terms that will work with the backend, so don't be surprised if your searches for Basket Weaving or Bubble Wrap don't come back with any results.

Create React App

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. You can find more information on how to perform common tasks here.

Contributing

This repository started with the starter code for all Udacity students. I forked it and continued to develop the necessary react componets tomake the finctionality work.