Book Finder

Book Finder was inspired by florinpop17 app ideas. This application allow users to search for books by entering a query (title, author, publisher, etc) and display all books found in a list on the page with corresponding data.

Freatures

• Book Finder allow users to search for books by multiple criteria (title, author, publisher, etc)

• The web page display all books found in a list on the page with corresponding data.

• Since Google Books API only admit at maximum 40 books per request, the webpage offers a pagination index that allows user to look all books found

• The webpage offers a responsive design fitting at most screen sizes.

• When the site searches for books, a loading animation is shown.

• User can access a secondary page for more book details

• If available, user can check a sample and buy the book (external link to google)

Possible improvements

As all applications this one can also be improved. Possible improvements:

• Have database for user account allowing users to:
  • Score books
  • Add book to a personal wish list
  • Personal profile dashboard
• Allow users to post a comment (review) for a specific book
• Show random books at index

Installation

Using docker container (recommended)

1. Install docker and docker-compose - External Link
2. Run the app as docker-container: docker-compose up

Using flask Locally

1. Setup virtual environment:

   
   $ python3 -m venv env
   
   $ source env/bin/activate
   
   $ pip install --upgrade pip
   
   $ pip install flask
   
   

2. Install requirements:

   
   $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   
   

3. Define flask app

   
   $ export FLASK_APP=application.py
   
   

4. Run the app with Flask: flask run

Authors

• Vinícius Rodrigues

License

Usage is provided under the MIT License. See LICENSE for full details.