book-finder

This project is to build a web application using the Google Books API to build a search engine to allow users to search for books.

LIVE LINK: https://dikshantagarwal.github.io/book-finder/

Features

• This project uses the google books volume (get and list) endpoint to get the list of books and details of individual books.

• Google api supports two types of authentication

  • OAuth 2.0 documentation
  • Api keys We have used API keys for authentication in our project. One can Create an API key in the Console by clicking Create credentials > API key.

• User can search by typing the book name in the Search input element and then clicking on the search button.

• Book cards related to searched books will get displayed.

Running the project

Live Version:- https://dikshantagarwal.github.io/book-finder/

From the repo:

1. Clone the project locally
2. Run npm install in your command line
3. Run npm run dev in your command line
4. Project will on run http://localhost:5173/book-finder

Dependencies

• Vite
• React
• React-DOM
• ReactRouter
• Typescript
• Tailwind
• gh-pages

ToDO List

• Authentication
• Create a bookshelf for the user that stores bookmarked books
• Include Test Cases using Jest, RTL, etc.
• Implement Service workers to improve performance.