Google Books API Search is a MERN full-stack web-application. The front-end is displayed using React.js with client-side routing provided by the react router. Server-side routing is performed with Express.js. The development environment was provided by Node.js. And, persistent data is stored in a MongoDB database.
Users are taken to the Home Page where they can choose to search the Google Books API or see books saved in the MongoDB database.
The Search Page provides a text input component that makes a call to the Google Books API and returns book information that is dynamically displayed. There is a "save" button that will add new books to the MongoDB database.
The Saved Page connects to the MongoDB database to pull information on books that have been saved previously and dynamically display them. There is a "remove" button in case duplicate books have been saved, or the user wants to delete a book from the MongoDB database.
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If you want to use this code for yourself please clone/fork the Google Books API Search repository.
The Google Books API repository is deployed on Heroku.
Users start using the Google Books API Search on the Home Page.
Navigating to the Search Page displays a text input for Users to type in the names of books that they want to search. Information is conditionally displayed such that when there is nothing to display, Users see that message.
Once a user has entered the name of a book for which to search, then the app displays a card per book dynamically with the information returned from the Google Books API.
Each book card has a "save" button that will include that particular book card's information in the MondoDB database.
Navigating to the Saved Page dynamically displays a book card for each book that has been saved into the MongoDB database.
If a User discovers for any reason that a book needs to be removed form the MongoDB database (if there is a duplicate, for instance...)
... then the User can click on the "remove" button of the book card associated with the book to be removed; ...
... and, that book's information will be deleted from the MongoDB database and no longer be dynamically displayed on the Saved Page.
The Google Books API Search also has a NoMatch Page. When a User attempts to visit a URI/URL that is not in the client-side router, the following page will be displayed:
If you have thoughts on further features or any suggestions on how to improve Google Books API Search, please send them to the e-mail address listed below.
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This Google Books API Search was built by 💚 Eric D. Torres 💚
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You can contact me by e-mail at [email protected] for any additional questions and/ or clarifications you may need about the project.
This application uses the MIT License found here.
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