Virtual Book App (Chingue-v43-tier-2-team-14)

Overview

The project is a virtual book store made by react with fetched data from external API.

Google Books API.
NY Times Best Seller's API.

Features

multi pages with dynamic routing
search books by title and author
functionality to add book to wishlist
authentication with google
responsive desgin

Deployed Links

Frontend Deployed Link : https://v43-tier2-team14-frontend.onrender.com/

Backend Deploted Link : https://v43-tier2-team14-backend.onrender.com/

Backend Documentation link : https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/18748695/2s93Xx1jjT

How To Use

To be able to use this react app locally in a development environment you will need the following:

You will need Git and Node.js installed on your computer.
Then From your terminal, you should do the following:

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/chingu-voyages/v43-tier2-team-14.git

# Go into the repository
cd v43-tier2-team-14

# navigate to frontend folder
cd frontend

# Install dependencies
npm install

# create .env.development if running in development
and then add
VITE_BACKEND_URL="http://localhost:4000"

# Run the app
npm run dev

In Another console

# Navigate back to the v43-tier2-team-14 folder

# Then go to backend folder

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Create .env file  add the necessary secrets environment variables

 PORT = ""
 HTTPS_PORT = ""
 MONGO_URI = ""
 GOOGLE_ID = ""
 GOOGLE_SECRET = ""
 GOOGLE_BOOKAPI = ""
 SESSION_SECRET = ""
 GOOGLE_BOOKAPI_URL = ""
 APP_HOME = ""
 NYTIMES_BOOK_KEY = ""
 NYTIMES_BOOK_SECRET = ""
 NYTIMES_BOOK_URL = ""

# Run the backend server
npm run dev

Technologies used

Frontend

Vite
TailwindCSS
Zustand
React Router
React Hooks
React icons

Backend

Express
MongoDB
Passport
Mongoose
Express Session

Contributing

Kindly check the contributing instructions listed in CONTRIBUTING file