Googlebooks API Search Engine

Demo & Snippets

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Requirements / Purpose

• Users can search for books and retrieve results from the Google books API
• Allows users to click on individual books to open modal containing more info on the book

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Build Steps

• Navigate to Googlebooks folder directory
• Type npm run dev into the command line
• Go to http://localhost:5173/ in browser

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Design Goals / Approach

• Keep it simple with a search bar and title in header
• Only display necessary data on search results until user

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Features

• Fetches data from the GoogleBooks API based on users search
• Returns data in a readable format
• Displays more info when users select book

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Future Goals

• Add animations when opening more details on books (Mobile View)
• Add filtering and ordering function on search

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What did you struggle with?

• Dealing with defaults when books returned didn't contain all data keys and values

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Licensing Details

• Unlicensed

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