This is the backend for the book tracking frontend that is here. This backend provides a simple CRUD interface to add, delete, finish, and suggest books.
Please refer to this repository for instructions on how to run the entire application.
Note: If you want to have support for Project Gutenberg suggestions then you must run the script called uploadTitlesToServer.js while the MongoDB is running (so after the mongod command), you can do this by running:
node uploadTitlesToServer.js
This will upload the project gutenberg index (as of 2020) to the server and it will be query-able by the frontend. Then the frontend will automatically link to project gutenberg if the book exists.
/books/
- GET: Get a list of all the books.
- POST: Submit a new book to the book list.
- DELETE: Delete a book from the list.
- PUT: Update the contents of a book.
/history/
- GET: Get all the books that are finished.
- POST: Submit a new book to the finished list.
/gbooks/search/:prefix
- GET: Gets the top 10 books that start with that prefix in the Gutenberg index and the link to them.
This is layed out like a standard node / express backend. The routes in the routes folder are simply what is listed above. The "logic" for each route endpoint is listed in the controllers folder. And the app.js ties all the routes together into a single application.