API of different books created with express and node.js.

/books lists all books in the API

/books/top-rated lists the 20 books with the highest rating

/books/:id lists the book with the corresponding ID in the API

title - /books?title={search word} lists every book which has the given parameter in its title

authors - /books?authors={search word} lists every book which has the given parameter in its field of authors

examples: /books?title=Rings /books?authors=Tolkien

I began by researching the dataset of the books array. I tried to find what information there was for each book and what of that would be the most interesting and common parts that a user would want to find and display. Then I created the first endpoint of all the books, the endpoint of each individual book based on id, and then tried my hand at creating a query for the author. I used the filter method combined with includes to have a more forgiving approach if the user did not type exactly the way the dataset was written. The title query had not only strings but also integers which made the includes part not work, but converting the title to a string solved the problem.

If I had more time I would make proper documentation of the API and split the result up into pages to make it less heavy.

The live API: https://express-first-api.herokuapp.com/