Book Club API

• Deployed API on Heroku here
  
• Frontend Repo here
  
• Project Spec here

Background

This server was created to accompany the user interface of 'Book Club', a frontend Mod 3 project at the Turing School of Software and Design. We used the NYT Best Selling Books API to populate a PostgreSQL database which this API querys using knex. This server was written in JavaScript using Express and Node.

Installation Instructions

1. Clone down this repo to your local machine:
   • [email protected]:cagallo/book-club-api.git
2. Change into the new directory:
   • cd book-club-api
3. Install the dependencies:
   • npm install
4. To fire up the server, run:
   • node server.js or nodemon server.js(if you have nodemon installed)
5. In the browser or postman, use the following endpoints with the base URL: http://localhost:3000/ to retrieve, post, or delete data.
6. You can also use the following endpoints(besides books, takes you there automatically) on the deployed Heroku API linked above.

Endpoints

Description	URL	Method	Required Properties for Request	Sample Sucessful Response
Get All Books	http://localhost:3001/api/v1/books	GET	none	array containing all book objects
Get Single Book	http://localhost:3001/api/v1/books/:isbn where isbn will be the isbn number of single book	GET	none	array containing an object of single book info
Get All Favorites	http://localhost:3001/api/v1/favorites	GET	none	array container all favorite book objects
Add New Favorite	http://localhost:3001/api/v1/favorites	POST	{ "isbn": "9781250278210", "title": "ABANDONED IN DEATH", "description": "...", "amazon_link": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/125027821X?tag=NYTBSREV-20", "book_image": "https://storage.googleapis.com/du-prd/books/images/9781250278210.jpg", "author": "J.D. Robb"}	{ id: <id> in favorites table}
Delete Single Favorited Book	http://localhost:3001/api/v1/favorites/:isbn where isbn will be the isbn number of single book	DELETE	none	{ message: Book with isbn#<isbn> has been removed from favorites }
Edit Favorited Status	http://localhost:3001/api/v1/books/:isbn	PATCH	{"isFavorited":"false" OR "true"}	{ "message": "Book with isbn#<isbn> isFavorited: "false" OR "true" }

Technologies Used

• Express
• PostgreSQL
• Knex.js
• JavaScript
• Node
• Node-Fetch
• PgAdmin4
• Heroku
• Postman

Authors

• Kayla Durrett

• Chez Gallo

• Christine Rowland

• Ethan Tweitmann

• Project Manager: Robbie Jaeger