MyReads Project

The MyReads Project displays books. Each book can be assigned to one of three shelves -- currentlyReading, reading, read -- or none. The search page allows searching of books and assigning those books to a shelf.

Bootstrapped using Create React App starting from the MyReads starter project.

TL;DR

To get started:

• install all project dependencies with npm install
• start the development server with npm start

What You're Getting

├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── README.md - This file.
├── SEARCH_TERMS.md # The whitelisted short collection of available search terms for you to use with your app.
├── package.json # npm package manager file. It's unlikely that you'll need to modify this.
├── public
│   ├── favicon.ico # React Icon, You may change if you wish.
│   └── index.html # DO NOT MODIFY
└── src
    ├── App.css # Styles for your app. Feel free to customize this as you desire.
    ├── App.js # App root.
    ├── App.test.js # Used for testing. Provided with Create React App. Testing is encouraged, but not required.
    ├── BooksAPI.js # A JavaScript API for the provided Udacity backend. Instructions for the methods are below.
    ├── icons # Helpful images for your app. Use at your discretion.
    │   ├── add.svg
    │   ├── arrow-back.svg
    │   └── arrow-drop-down.svg
    ├── index.css # Global styles. You probably won't need to change anything here.
    └── index.js # You should not need to modify this file. It is used for DOM rendering only.
    └── components
        ├── Book.js #A single book; imports Cover.js and Menu.js
        ├── Bookcase.js # Container for the shelves; imports Shelf.js
        ├── Cover.js # Book image cover
        ├── Menu.js # Menu item for moving books between shelves
        ├── OpenSearch.js # Button on books page that navigates to search pagee
        ├── Search.js # Search form and results that displays books; imports Book.js
        └── Shelf.js # Displays books for each defined shelf; imports Book.js

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.

Testing

This project is using Jest and Frisby to test the api call. Run the tests with the command: npm test

Contributing

This repository is the starter code for all Udacity students. Therefore, we most likely will not accept pull requests.

For details, check out CONTRIBUTING.md.