Book-Thing.IO

A community driven, book recommendation application. Users can create lists of their favorite books and have others recommended to them.

Motivation

We wanted a book recommendation app that was community driven. Books and lists are all created by the users.

Build Status

Screenshots

Login Screen/Landing Page:

About:

Library:

Recommendations:

Environment Setup

1. Setup your own postgress server
2. Run the database_script.sql file to build your table structure
3. Create a .env file in your server folder which contains the path to your database as well as your client id and secret
4. Obtain a client id and secret by setting up your app with the google developers console
5. Run your project with

npm run dev

Running the tests

To run all tests, run

npm test

To run just the front/back end tests, run

npm run test:server

npm run test:client

Built With

Front-End

• React
• Redux
• React-Router

Back-End

• Postgress
• Express
• Node
• Knex

Testing

• Mocha
• Chai
• Chai-http
• Jest

Features

• Create a list of books
• Add your favorite books
• Like lists to get recommendations
• See every book currently in the library

Demo

• Live Demo

Authors

• Sonja Duric - ** - Database design/Back-End development
• Jonathan Fitzgibbon - ** - Back-End development/testing
• Tanner Gill - ** - Front-End development/testing, styling
• Patrice White - ** - Front-End development/testing, styling

Acknowledgments

• Ben Pardo - ** - The Great Savior, The Wise Sage