/rex

Recommendation tracking solution

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Rex

Basics

Recommendation tracking application. Features:

  • Sign in / authentication
  • Loading books from Goodreads (Future: additional categories)
  • Add books to recommendation list
  • Take books off list
  • Mark recommendations as completed and rate
  • Check out recommendations
  • Sort recommendations and show / hide completed

To start the app

npm install -g webpack

npm install

npm run react-dev

npm run server-dev

Development notes

  • Backup of the database is included in database/latest.dump (see Heroku for notes to restore)
  • API key left blank, needs GoodReads key

Priorities

  • Password needs to be blocked on login / signup
  • Authentication: Passport for session tracking

Stretch goals

  • Additional categories
    • Additional APIs for categories (Movies from IMDB, Food from Yelp, etc...)
  • User-to-user interaction:
    • Friending users
    • Sending users recommendations
    • Viewing friends recommendation lists
  • Redux store for data
  • React native / PWA