README.md

My booktracker

A book tracking application build with react, express, mongodb and Google book API. User have access to an entire library that offers book searching, bookshelf management and reading progress tracking.

• Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=busUHFWhIAw&t=156s

• Features

  • Without Google login: User can search books based on keywords and see the details of the books such as title, author, description...etc.
  • With Google login:
    • User have access to their own personal library that includes 4 default bookshelves: Favorites, Reading now, To read, and Have read, and a big "home book" spot at the top of the home page.
    • Bookshelf: user can add/move/remove book from any bookshelf.
    • Books in any bookshelf: user can add notes, write review or rate the book from 1 to 5.
    • Home book: once you set a book to be your homebook, you have access to a progress tracking slider and a textfield to let you write your thought on the book after today's reading.

• Stack

  Frontend: react, redux, javascripts, antd, material-ui, react-router-dom, react-rating, draft-js, react-draft-wysiwyg, data-fans

  Backend: nodeJS, express

  Database: mongoDB

  API: Google books API

• Installation (Update: Add Dockerfile)

  Clone Repo

  git clone https://github.com/leyunn/dockerized_mybooktracker_react.git
  

  Create env file for Mongo db connection

  cd app 
  // at my-booktracker
  touch .env
  open .env
  write “MONGO_URL=...(your mongo db database link)”
  

  Install with docker

  docker build -t "booktracker_react" .
  docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up
  

  Alternatively, you can install manually,

  cd app
  npm install
  cd frontend
  npm install
  

  Start

  // backend
  npm start
  //frontend
  cd frontend
  npm start