Book Search Engine

Table of Contents

• Overview
• What is the Utility of a GraphQL API Built with an Apollo Server?
• Technologies
• Screen Capture
• Live Application
• Installation
• Usage

Overview

A Google Books API search engine built with the MERN stack. Users can signup and login, search for books, and save their favorite books to their accounts

What is the Utility of a GraphQL API Built with an Apollo Server?

Web behemoths like Facebook and Google are moving at a breakneck speed to make life better for front-end developers. By creating new technologies like React, these companies free developers to focus on the business logic of their new applications and services while abstracting away the back-end issues that have historically slowed developers. Facebook rightly gets credit for its front-end work with open source React, but it may deserve even more credit for open sourcing GraphQL, an emerging query language. In a new cloud native world of microservices, the number of endpoint APIs increases exponentially, which is proving a huge challenge for traditional SQL technologies. GraphQL, however, can communicate across microservices and operate almost as a gateway to all of your services — a unifying source that provides a holistic view of all your systems.

Technologies

                                                                       

Screen Capture

Live Application

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Installation

1. Fork and clone repository to local machine.
2. Open integrated terminal in personal IDE.
3. Run npm install in the highest level of the root directory to install all the necessary dependencies.

Usage

1. Open integrated terminal in personal IDE.
2. Run npm run develop to start a local development server and to compile required static assets.