Better Reads Back End

Welcome to Better-Reads, a service that uses machine learning and natural language processing to recommend books for user's based on a desired description! We have also implemented basic social media aspects such as saved book lists and profile pages.

TDD:

Link to live project: https://better-reads.netlify.com/ (The data science team has taken down their Flask server, so the recommendation system no longer operates.)

API Endpoint documentation and instruction: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/8283723/SVYkx1vA?version=latest

##Getting Started

• Fork and clone the project into the IDE of your choice.
• run npm install to get all dependencies.
• use knex to run migrations: knex migrate:latest

Technologies Used

• Node.js
• Express
• CORS
• JSONWebToken
• BCryptJS
• Cross-ENV
• Knex
• SQLite3
• PostGres
• Heroku
• Helmet
• Axios

Team

Back-End

• Jarred Stanford

Data Science

• Will Cotton
• Josh Mancuso
• Dustin Yang
• Matt Mastin

Front End

• Marcus Kwan
• Seth Lewis
• Justine Gennaro
• Sierra Obermoeller-Gilmer

Marketing

• Nicholas Ramirez

As always, a special thanks goes out to Isaac Houle, my wonderful PM who critiques my code day in and day out!