README

The Bookshelf web app allows users to browse books on the NYTimes Bestsellers list and add them to their list to read later.

Created in Ruby 2.6.1, React 16.12.0, and Redux 4.0.4.

Code for adding user authentication was adapted from Alejandro Sabogal, "React with Rails User Authentication", Medium. Nov. 11, 2019. https://medium.com/how-i-get-it/react-with-rails-user-authentication-8977e98762f2

Installing

1. Clone this repo to your local machine with https://github.com/radville/bookshelf

2. From the bookshelf-api folder, run bundle install in the terminal to add all gems from the Gemfile

3. Create and initialize the postgres database by running rails db:create and then rails db:migrate

4. Start the Rails API site by entering rails s in the terminal from the bookshelf-api folder.

5. From the bookshelf-frontend folder, run npm install in the terminal to download packages and dependencies.

6. Launch the frontend with npm start from the bookshelf-frontend folder

7. In the browser, go to http://localhost:3001 to see the app.

Built With

• Ruby on Rails - The web framework used to generate user booklist API
• React - The JavaScript library used to build frontend interface
• Redux - The state container used

Contributing

1. Fork this repo

2. Clone the repo to your local machine with https://github.com/radville/bookshelf

3. Make your edits!

4. Create a new pull request

Authors

• Laura Radville - Initial work - (https://github.com/radville/)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details