marquesm91 / react-myreads

MyReads project from Udacity React Developer Nanodegree Program

MyReads Project

MyReads Project is the first challenge project of Udacity Nanodegree React Program.

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

You can find the most recent guide version of creating projects with create-react-app here.

Test yourself

Follow these steps

• git clone https://github.com/marquesm91/react-myreads
• npm install or yarn
• npm run start or yarn start

The application will open your default browser on https://localhost:3000/

About the application

After the default installation with create-react-app, three 3rd party library was added:

• react-router-dom found here and used for better experience with browser url navigation and keep react application sync'd.
• escape-string-regexp found here and used for format RegExp.
• sort-by found here and used for sort array based on an key object.
• throttle-debounce found here and used for debounce search bar.

The application consumes BooksAPI provided earlier from the starter kit Github repo.

What you can do

• You can add/remove/change books selecting the desired shelf between Currently Reading, Want to Read, Read or None.
• You can search for books based on a list found in src/SearchTerms.js. You could also search for initials, book names but be aware that not every book will be found. More info on the starter kit Github repo.

Features

• You can filter your search to fetch only new books and exclude books you already had in some shelf.
• Every interaction with BooksAPI the user has a feedback box to aware what is happening.
• On first load shelves a spinner will be display to aware user that your books will be there as soon as possible.
• Suggestions will display below search bar when start typing to help user what to search.
• When hit enter or click in any suggestion when fetching for books a feedback bar will be boucing below search bar to aware user that the application is still doing something with your query.