The application is a virtual bookshelf. It keeps track of books in three categories: "Want to Read", "Currently Reading", and "Read." When the application first loads it will display the current books on the shelfs from the database. The web interface will allow users to be move books between shelves and remove books from shelves. The application also has a search feature that allows users to search for books and add new books to the shelfs. The search page will display the current state of each book (None if the book is not in any shelf).
Of course, you are free to start this project from scratch if you wish! Just be sure to use Create React App to bootstrap the project.
To get started developing right away:
- install all project dependencies with
npm install - start the development server with
npm start
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── README.md - This file.
├── SEARCH_TERMS.md # The whitelisted short collection of available search terms for you to use with your app.
├── package.json # npm package manager file. It's unlikely that you'll need to modify this.
├── public
│ ├── favicon.ico # React Icon, You may change if you wish.
│ └── index.html # DO NOT MODIFY
└── src
├── App.css # Styles for your app. Feel free to customize this as you desire.
├── App.js # This is the root of your app. Contains static HTML right now.
├── App.test.js # Used for testing. Provided with Create React App. Testing is encouraged, but not required.
├── Book.js # The Book component which displays title, authors and a shelf selector which displays the current shelf and allows users to move the book to a different shelf.
├── BookSearch.js # The component that allows users to search for books.
├── BooksAPI.js # A JavaScript API for the provided Udacity backend. Instructions for the methods are below.
├── icons # Helpful images for your app. Use at your discretion.
│ ├── add.svg
│ ├── arrow-back.svg
│ └── arrow-drop-down.svg
├── index.css # Global styles. You probably won't need to change anything here.
└── index.js # You should not need to modify this file. It is used for DOM rendering only.
├── Shelf.js # Component for Book Shelf.Remember that good React design practice is to create new JS files for each component and use import/require statements to include them where they are needed.
To simplify your development process, we've provided a backend server for you to develop against. The provided file BooksAPI.js contains the methods you will need to perform necessary operations on the backend:
Method Signature:
getAll()- Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing a collection of book objects.
- This collection represents the books currently in the bookshelves in your app.
Method Signature:
update(book, shelf)- book:
<Object>containing at minimum anidattribute - shelf:
<String>contains one of ["wantToRead", "currentlyReading", "read"] - Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing the response data of the POST request
Method Signature:
search(query)- query:
<String> - Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing a collection of a maximum of 20 book objects.
- These books do not know which shelf they are on. They are raw results only. You'll need to make sure that books have the correct state while on the search page.
The backend API uses a fixed set of cached search results and is limited to a particular set of search terms, which can be found in SEARCH_TERMS.md. That list of terms are the only terms that will work with the backend, so don't be surprised if your searches for Basket Weaving or Bubble Wrap don't come back with any results.
This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. You can find more information on how to perform common tasks here.
This repository is the starter code for all Udacity students. Therefore, we most likely will not accept pull requests.
For details, check out CONTRIBUTING.md.