Goodreads-Book-Search

This application uses goodreads api to look for books by title, author or isbn code.

This project was bootstrapped with create-react-app and deployed live at https://goodreads-react.herokuapp.com/

Running the application locally

Prerequisites: You need to have Node + NPM installed.

Required Environment Variables:

REACT_APP_API_KEY : Goodreads API Key you can get from here.

Save it in the .env file as mentioned here

Having done that, here is how to run the application locally in development mode.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/niinpatel/goodreads-react.git

**Install dependencies:**

npm install

Starting the application in development mode:

npm start

Building the application:

To build the production assets, run

npm run build

Testing the App:

Right now there is only one test suite. (renders without crashing)

npm test

Features In Current Version:

1. Search for books by title, author, or ISBN.
2. Displays upto 20 search results in bootstrap cards.
3. Displays only title, author, and link to goodreads page.

Future Implementation:

Some of the things that I want to implement in the future version are:

1. Ability to see more data about particular book, description, rating, reviews by clicking on it.
2. Add pagination to see more search results.
3. Ability to sign in with github so users can add their own reviews and ratings.