Give A Book Away is an online platform for exchanging books. Here you can:
- Create an account
- Search for books in your area
- Post books
- Edit book information
- View the approximate distance to the book you would like to pick up
- Chat with other users
Heroku link: https://books-away.herokuapp.com/
Clone the repo, then type:
npm install
After completing the installation, you can run the app by typing:
nodemon app.js
Keep in mind that you will need to have the following API keys & URLs with listed variable names in your .env file to run the project:
- MapQuest Distance Matrix API key: (DISTANCE_MATRIX_API_KEY)
- Google Books API key: (REACT_APP_BOOKS_API_KEY)
- URL to a remote database (DB_URL) or a local postgreSQL database. This is only the back-end part of the project. To completely install the project, you also need to follow the instructions in the front-end repo.