Google Books Search

Full stack application

Description

React-based Google Books Search app that displays books on user searches. Users can save them to review or purchase later.

Save button to save the book to the database.
View button to view the book on Google Books.

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Deployment

This App is deployed on Heroku: Google Books Search

Technologies used

MVC design pattern: Model, View, Controller.

• MongoDB

• Express.js

• React.js

• Node.js

• Search for books using the Google Books API

  getBook: function (query) {
    return axios.get(`https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=${query}`);
  },
  // Delete book with the given id
  deleteBook: function (id) {
    return axios.delete("/api/books/" + id).then(result => result.data);
  },
  // Save book to the database
  saveBook: function (bookData) {
    return axios.post("/api/books", bookData).then(result => result.data);
  },
  // Get saved books from the database
  savedBooks: function () {
    return axios.get("/api/books").then(result => result.data);
  }

Author

Victoire Baron | Victoire44