Book Trading App

Book Exchange is a book trading application which allows authenticated users to search for books on the Google Books API, build a book collection, view other users' collections, and send and receive requests for books.

Technology

• Angular 4.0 / Angular CLI
• Typescript 2.2
• MaterializeCSS (Material Design implementation)
• Node
• Express 4.15
• MongoDB 2.2
• Mongoose 4.11
• Data: Google Books API
• Auth: JSON Web Tokens, BCrypt
• Hosting: Heroku / MLab (cloud Mongo provider)
• Testing: Karma, Mocha, Supertest, Expect
• Linting: ESLint, TSLint

Features

• responsive design
• data pagination
• server side username validation
• password encryption
• progress bar and notifications for asynchronous features

Browser Compatibility

• tested on Chrome, Opera, Edge, IE11

Useful Links

https://arwl-book-exchange.herokuapp.com https://github.com/ARWL2016/book-trading-club https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using#WorkingVolumes
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43869961/node-js-express-redirect-all-to-angular-2-page
http://materializecss.com/

Bugs

Enhancements

• add https redirect
• use cache control in html: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4480304/how-to-set-http-headers-for-cache-control
• add fuller test coverage for API
• add footer
• add a messaging component
• add proper front end error handling
• extract modal as separate component

Todo

• delete book method - currently requests for a deleted book are not auto removed
• front end checklist

Notes

• Users BookIDs array is not being used