React Book Search 📚

Description

A React-based Google Books Search app with helper/util functions and React Hooks to query and display books based on user searches. It also uses Node, Express, MongoDB and is deployed to Heroku.

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Table of Contents

• Description
• Project URL
• Deployment
• Demo/Screenshots
• Installation
• Usage
• Credits
• License
• Resources
• Contact
• Author

Project URL

https://github.com/johnsonr84/react-book-search

Deployment

https://mern-react-book.herokuapp.com/

Demo/Screenshots

react-book-search example

Technologies

Reactjs node.js, Mongodb, Mongoose, Express js, React-Bootstrap, React-Router-Dom

Installation

Access to GitHub.com and a code editor such as vscode is necessary. Click the GitHub link provided above to the APP REPO. Click on the green button that says Clone or Download and Choose how you would like to download: using the SSH/HTTPS keys or download the zip file. If using SSH/HTTPS Key: You will copy the link shown and open up either terminal (mac: pre-installed) or gitbash (pc: must be installed). Once the application is open, you will type git clone paste url here. If using Download ZIP: Click on Download Zip. Locate the file and double click it to unzip the file. Locate the unzipped folder and open it.

Usage

In order to use this APP, you need terminal (mac: pre-installed) or gitbash (pc: must be installed). You also need to download and install node.js and npm or yarn package manager. Open the cloned REPO in your favorite code editor, and then in terminal, enter the command “npm i“ or “yarn add” to install the dependencies. You will also need to signup for a free account at mongodb.com. In addition, make sure to create a .env file on the project root, and input your own mongodb Atals config information (see .env_example for samples). You also need to obtain a Google Book API Key link here and replace process.env.REACT_APP_BOOK_API_KEY in src/Search/Search.js file with you own API KEY. Now you are ready to start using the app by entering “npm start” on your terminal or gitbash. If you just want to try how the app works, you can go to the link here

Credits

Me, myself and Irene

License

This project is mit licensed.

Features

Coming soon maybe

Tests

npm test

Resources

• Choose a License
• Badmath
• shields.io
• w3schools
• stackoverflow.com
• YouTube
• 01-Ins_Mern/create-react-express
• React-Router-Dom
• Deployment Guide
• Heroku

Contact

Email: robertcjohnson1984@gmail.com

Author

Author(s): Rob Johnson

GitHub: https://github.com/johnsonr84/