Book Store - MERN Full Stack Project

Description

This project is a simple web application to manage a book store. It is a full stack project using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js).

The functionalities developed are:

• List all books
• Add a new book
• Edit a book
• Delete a book

Future Improvements

• Search book by title
• Login and authentication
• Authorization
• Pagination
• REST API

Installation & Setup

Install the required packages in the backend folder.

$ cd backend

$ npm install

Install the required packages in the frontend folder.

$ cd frontend

$ npm install

In the backend folder, there is a sampleConfig.js file. Create a new file named config.js and copy the content of sampleConfig.js to config.js. Replace the MongoDB connection string with your own connection string.

export const mongoDBURL =
  "mongodb+srv://<user_name>:<password>@book-store-db.chncoxg.mongodb.net/books-collection?retryWrites=true&w=majority";

Running the app

To run the app, run the following command in the backend folder.

$ npm run dev

To run the app, run the following command in the frontend folder.

$ npm run dev

Credits to the following resources

• MERN Stack Tutorial - Book Store Project
• Book-Store-MERN-FullStack