The project emphasizes using React to build the application and provides an API server and client library that is used to persist information as user interacts with the application.
- clone this repository
- install all project dependencies with
npm install
- start the development server with
npm start
├── 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
├── public
│ ├── favicon.ico
│ └── index.html
└── src
├── App.css
├── App.js
├── App.test.js
├── BookRender.js
├── BooksAPI.js # A JavaScript API for the provided Udacity backend. Instructions for the methods are below.
├── icons
│ ├── add.svg
│ ├── arrow-back.svg
│ └── arrow-drop-down.svg
├── index.css
├── index.js
├── MyReads.js
└── Search.js
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.
Method Signature:
update(book, shelf)
- book:
<Object>
containing at minimum anid
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
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.
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.