google_books

Search Books with this Useful App

About

• This application is a tool to quickly look up book and save them for future reading.

Local Usage

• Clone this repo to your computer
• In the project directory, run $npm install
• Edit PORT and DB configuration if necessary/desired
• Run npm start or node app to start your server and use this project on your own

Link to Repo:

• Git hub Repo

Link to Deployed:

• Heroku App

Technologies:

• Reactjs - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
• Javascript - The scripting language used to manipulate the DOM.
• Heroku- Cloud platform which builds databases and websites deployed online.
• Node - Javascript run-time environment (used to execute server side code.)
• BootStrap - popular framework for building responsive websites
• BootSwatch - Templating service built on Bootstrap framerwork
• CSS -is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML
• GoogleBooks API - Allows access to the full text of the Google Books repository
• MongoDB - MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database.
• Mongoose - Mongoose provides a schema-based solution (orm) to model application data.

Demos:

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Difficulties

The most difficult part of this development process was visualizing what state is. I worked through this project with a couple of my friends and we more of less helped each other reach the finish line.

Building this application helped me understand ReactJS in a much deeper fashion- however. I would not touch this code again unless paid for it. The functionality my not be the best, but bootSwatch can make anything look nice.

Creator

Laura DiTommaso