qm994/react-booktracking-medium

A React App helper users tracking their books

MyReads Project

Technical Knowledges Used In This Project

React, React-Router, ES6

The errors and stuck I have met in this project;

• Once I was trying to set a state called allBooks which is a Map type to store all the books in the main page and use their book.id as the key; The good things is I successfully create the Map and pass it child component. But when I used the prop in child component I kept meeting the error said this Map isnt iteratable. So I console.log the prop and it actually said the prop is a Map object. After almost one afternoon figure out what happened, I finally found out that the real reason was when I created the state in app.js, I did this allBook: [] which allBooks is an Object rather than a Map. Obejct equals to Map BUT Map NOT Eqauls to Object

TL;DR

To get started developing right away:

• firstly clone the master repo;
• then install all project dependencies with npm install
• finally 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 the 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. 
    ├── App.js # This is the root of the app. Contains static HTML right now.
    ├── App.test.js # Used for testing. Provided with Create React App.
    ├── BooksAPI.js # A JavaScript API for the provided Udacity backend. Instructions for the methods are below.
    ├── CreateMainPage.js # Component to create the Main Page;
    ├── CreateSearchPage.js # Component to create the Search Page;
    ├── CurrentlyReading.js # Component for currentlyReading shelf;
    ├── WantToRead.js # Component to create wantToRead shelf;
    ├── read.js # Component to create the read shelf
    ├── ErrorBoundary.js # The error boundaries class for search page component;
    ├── icons # Helpful images for your app. Use at your discretion.
    │   ├── add.svg
    │   ├── arrow-back.svg
    │   └── arrow-drop-down.svg
    ├── index.css # Global styles
    └── index.js # You should not need to modify this file. It is used for DOM rendering only.

Details of Components && Logic

CreateMainPage Component

It create the main page;

It takes the props (1)currentlyReading: all the currently readings book in currentlyReading state; (2) readingsId: all the currently readings books ids; and the rest pros wantToRead, wantReadId, read, readId all are the same logic;

And the prop: onChange=this.updateBookStatus will be used as the select tag's onChange event to update the book status and set the Id states;

CreateSearchPage Component

It creates the search page;

The prop: onChange=this.updateBookStatus will be used as the select tag's onChange event to update the book status and set the Id states;

The props onChangeSearchBook={this.onChangeSearchBook will be used to update every book's dropdown selection when we do the search;

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.