Open Library API

Site application with the aim of promoting book reading through the external Open Library service.

Description

The application consists of a simple textbox to allow the user to search for all books in a specific category.

Once the user clicks on the button, the application contacts the API of the external Open Library service, and searches for the category entered by the user. Once the application retrieves the list of books, it displays the title and the list of authors and the description retrieved via a new API request.

Project features

• The application is developed with JavaScript, css, html
• The application makes an initial API request, and in case there are books it saves in a Book class. After that it retrieves the data from the Book class and makes a second API call passing the key of the individual book to retrieve the description and updates the class
• To improve performance, a paging system was implemented

Installation

• Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/Priotts/JsOpenLibrary

• Type

    npm init -y

• Install the project dependencies (you can find them in the requirements.txt file):

    npm install webpack webpack-cli webpack-dev-server style-loader html-webpack-plugin gh-pages dotenv-webpack css-loader axios -D

• Create the .env file and enter the OpenLibrary url (.env_example)

• Create the JavaScript bundle file by typing

    npm run build 

• Start a demo by typing

    npm run dev

• If you want to create a github page go to package.json and change the homepage link to your repo link