/GoogleBooksSearch

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React Google Books Search

Overview

React-based Google Books Search app. This SPA (Single Page Application) uses [react-router-dom]to navigate, hide and show your React components without changing the route within Express. Using helper/util functions and React lifecycle methods to query and display books based on user searches, this is a full MERN stack application allows users to save books to a database to refer to at a later date. Built with Node, Express and MongoDB, and React-Toastify for custom alerts. Toasty!

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Table of Contents

required npm packages

mongoose, axios, react-router-dom, react-toastify

Database

  1. Connect to a MongoDB database named googlebooks using the mongoose npm package.

  2. Using mongoose, create a Book schema.

  3. Books should have each of the following fields:

  • title - Title of the book from the Google Books API

  • authors - The books's author(s) as returned from the Google Books API

  • description - The book's description as returned from the Google Books API

  • image - The Book's thumbnail image as returned from the Google Books API

  • link - The Book's information link as returned from the Google Books API

  • Example JSON:

    {
  authors: ["Suzanne Collins"]
  description: "Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature."
  image: "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sazytgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
  link: "http://books.google.com/books?id=sazytgAACAAJ&dq=title:The+Hunger+Games&hl=&source=gbs_api"
  title: "The Hunger Games"
}

Technologies Implemented

  • Bootstrap
  • Express
  • Node.js
  • React
  • MongoDB
  • Heroku

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