Book Review

This book review app is a MERN stack app, which uses the Open Library API and is programmed by laert-iskurti and snake_py.

Installation

After you download the reposetory, you have to cd into the backend and the frontend and run each time:

npm install

First cd into the backend folder and then run:

npm start

In a second terminal cd into the frontend folder and run:

npm start

You must make sure that the proxy for react is set correctly so that the backend and the frontend can communicated.

For instance when express is running on port 5000 and react is running on port 3000 then you need to add into react's package.json file:

"proxy": "http://localhost:5000/"

User, Book, Favorites, Liked, Review, query_data, book_data, excel

In this section the Controllers and their functionality will be described.

All requests send back a message and status.

Route	Required data	Response data	Protected	Request type	Comment
/api/user/register	username, email, password	status, message	guest	post	It only registers the user - I want to implement email verification and let the user only log in if the user is verfied.
/api/user/login	username, pw or email, pw	status, message, token	guest	post	the token must be saved in the FE as auth.token in the session or cookie
/api/user/ban	user_id	ban status	admin	post	The methode changes the ban status either isBanned: false or true
/api/user/	user_id	user	admin	delete	Currently only admin can delete users

Route	Required data	Response data	Protected	Request type	Comment
/api/books/click	isbn, title, author, thumbnail	status, success, message	guest	post	By clicking the book in the search page, the book get added to the database.
/api/books/like	user_id, book_id	status, liked, message	member	post	A member likes or unlikes a book (if previously liked)
/api/books/liked	user_id	status, likedBooks, message	member	get	The member can see all his liked books

Route	Required data	Response data	Protected	Request type	Comment
/api/book/review/add	reviewTitle, rating, text, userId, bookId, isbn, bookTitle, author, thumbnail, bookLikeSum, bookClickCounter, bookAverageRating,	status, success, message	member	post	The member can add a review to a book
/api/book/review/get	user_id	status, reviewedBooks, message	member	get	A member gets all the books he has reviewed.
/api/book/review/	title, rating, text, user_id, book_id	status, success , message	member	delete	The member can delete a review
/api/book/review/update	_id (of the review) ,title, rating, text, user_id, book_id	status, success, message	memeber	post	The member can update a review

Standard MIT License