itissandeep98/Bookend

Peer-to-Peer book selling and lending Portal

By Anmol and Sandeep

Table of content

• Table of content
  • Usage
    • Features
  • Setup
    • Backend
    • Frontend
      • Creating a Redux Action

Usage

1. The frontend of this webapp is hosted on Github Pages and the backend on heroku
2. Visit itissandeep98.github.io/Bookend/

Features

1. Login or Register into portal
2. Create new Ad for lending or selling your books
3. Search database for books
4. View your history of books

Setup

Backend

1. Install pipenv and flask
2. Get inside the directory and run pipenv install
3. Start the virtual environment shell by running pipenv shell
4. For starting the flask Server run run.py

Frontend

1. Install create-react-app, nodejs, yarn
2. Get inside the directory and run yarn to install all the dependencies
3. Start the react app by running yarn start

Creating a Redux Action

1. Create all the related action type in ActionTypes.js
2. Create a new reducer in reducers
3. Import the newly created reducer in the root reducer
4. Create an Action creator in ActionCreators.js
5. Use mapStatetoProps or mapDispatchtoProps functions for accessing the state or updating the state respectively using your action creator.