Udacity - MyReads Application w/ React project

This application was built as a project for the Udacity Front End Nanodegree program. This application allows a user to search for books and place them on a virtual book shelf. There are three bookshelfs available:

• Currently Reading
• Want to Read
• Read

After seraching and selecting the book of your choice, the book will be displayed on its corresponding shelf.

Installation

To view the source code for the application

• cd into a folder of your choice in your terminal and
• use git clone https://github.com/chrisvneal/udacity_my-reads.git to download the files
• install all project dependencies with npm install

Start the application

• start the development server with npm start
• wait for the server to open up your default browser and display on localhost:3000

Important

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.

Contributing

Please review CONTRIBUTING.md for details on contributing.