robert-ngo / NYTimes-books

A prototype of Flutter app that fetches data from NYTimes API.

New York Times books

A sample Flutter project, to demontrate fetching data from New York Times Books API. The sample application is used to experimenting:

• the use of fetching, parsing in background isolate using the compute().
• accessing New York Times Books API.
• basic Flutter layout
• StateLessWidget vs StateFulWidget
• launch URL using url_launcher

Register your developer account to access the NYTimes Books API

In this tutorial, we use the Books API https://developer.nytimes.com/docs/books-product/1/overview

• Register your developer account, create a new app for testing, and get generate an API Key
• Copy file .env.project into .env.
• Replace [your-api-key] in .env with the API key above.

To run project

Assuming you already have flutter installed, if not, please install it by following instructions at https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install.

To run the project:

• run flutter run to spin up the app on simulator