lmidy / reactnd-myreads-final

Udacity React Nanodegree My Reads Assignment

In the MyReads project, you'll create a bookshelf app that allows you to select and categorize books you have read, are currently reading, or want to read. The project emphasizes using React to build the application and provides an API server and client library that you will use to persist information as you interact with the application.

I followed the top down approach to thinking in react

Starter files for working on this project:

Reactnd-project-myreads-starter

How to run myreads project

Download this git repo a local folder, Navigate to the myreads folder

cd reactnd-project-myreads-final

Install your npm project dependencies

npm install

Then run the application:

npm start

Browse the application at this URL:

Compiled successfully!

You can now view myreads-app in the browser.

  Local:            http://localhost:3000/

Validate My Reads home page loads:

Navigate to search page

Execute some of the scenarios identified in Rubric

• Go to search page and search "react" and add a book to any shelf
• Select several books from the search page and identify differnt shelf values
• Use the back button to go to home and validate books are in proper shelves

Udacity provided myReads Backend Server

To simplify your development process, we've provided a backend server for you to develop against. The provided file BooksAPI.js contains the methods you will need 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.