MyReads - ABook Tracking App with React

Live https://myreadsapp.now.sh

The project is developed for the final assessment project for Udacity's React Fundamentals course. I found it very interesting while developing the project. The project covers the following aspects of React:

• Rendering UI with React
• State Management
• Lifecyle Events
• React Router

Features

• Allows the user to select and categorize books that the user has read, is currently reading, or want to read.
• By clicking on the add button, the user can search the desired books and add to the respective shelf.
• The app updates all the changes automatically by synchronizing with the backend server.
• The defined category is also reflected in the search result if the book exists on the shelf.

MyReads on YouTube

Getting Started

• install all project dependencies with npm install
• start the development server with npm start

Backend Server

To simplify your development process, Udacity have provided a backend server to develop against. The provided file BooksAPI.js contains the methods needed to perform necessary operations on the backend:

• getAll
• update
• search

getAll

Method Signature:

getAll()

• Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing a collection of book objects.
• This collection represents the books currently in the bookshelves in your app.

update

Method Signature:

update(book, shelf)

• book: <Object> containing at minimum an id attribute
• shelf: <String> contains one of ["wantToRead", "currentlyReading", "read"]
• Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing the response data of the POST request

search

Method Signature:

search(query)

• query: <String>
• Returns a Promise which resolves to a JSON object containing a collection of a maximum of 20 book objects.
• These books do not know which shelf they are on. They are raw results only. You'll need to make sure that books have the correct state while on the search page.

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, so don't be surprised if your searches for Basket Weaving or Bubble Wrap don't come back with any results.

Create React App

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. You can find more information on how to perform common tasks here.

Author

• Himel Das

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgements

• The incredible team at Udacity