An application to help me track the books I want to read and those I have already read.
- Wrote entire backend of the application
- Used Express.js for the server and MySQL for the database
- Utilized MVC structure
- Wrote my own ORM to communicate between my model and database
- Wrote front end using HTML, Handlebars.js, CSS, and JavaScript
- The user can search for a new book by title or author
- Suggestions are rendered using jQuery UI's autofill feature
- If the user adds the new book, it is displayed in the "I want to read" list
- Additional details, such as a description of the book, are obtained from google's Google Books API and displayed for the user
- The book's details are stored in a SQL database using MySQL
- Handlebars.js is used to display the books on the front end
- Users can move the book from their "I want to read" list to their "I have completed reading" list
- making this change initiates a call to the backend to change the book's "done" status in the database
- For all books the user has read, the user can store a rating and personal notes
- Such details are stored in the database
- Google Books
- used for search field auto-fill and to retreive additional details on selected books (description, etc.)
- Custom API developed for the front end to interact with the back end.
- Express (to handle routing and serving data)
- Body-parser (to process API requests)
- Method-override (to enable PUT and DELETE requests directly from forms in the HTML)
- Express-handlebars (to quickly deliver and render HTML using data from MySQL)
- MySQL (for storing and retrieving data)
- Request (to make API calls from my back end to other APIs like Google Books)
- jQuery
- jQuery UI
- Google Fonts
- add media queries to handle different size Screenshot
- incorporate time stamps for when a book is completed
- add authorization so the app can be used by multiple users
- use TDD to test current build and drive future development
