Book Saver is an application that pulls the data from the NYT Best Sellers Lists, and allows the user to view them. There's a homepage that starts with a popular section that displays 4 of the current #1 books, and then a bunch of filters the user can click through to view the current books on all the non-deprecated NYT Bestsellers Lists. When a user clicks on a book, they'll be brought to a new page displaying more info about the book, and give a couple of buttons for the user to have quick access to sites they can purchase the book from. There's also a login page and an account registration page that allows a user to connect their google account or create a new account on the app, all authenticated through Google Firebase.
Unfortunately, since the app uses Secret API Keys through Google Firebase, it's unable to be pulled down and run locally. However, it's fully usable here
This application is our Mod 3 Stretch Tech group project, and we worked on it for ~20 hours.
Trevor Fitzgerald
Tom Doder
Daniel Curtin
- Pick up a new technology outside the scope of the Turing Program and implement it into a project.
- Solidify our understanding of React fundamentals.
- Create a multi-page UX utilizing React Router.
- A win came in the form of Firebase implementation - the docs were easy to understand and the installation process was much simpler than expected.
- A challenge came in the form of Testing - Cypress performs inconsistently at best - tests will fail, then pass upon refresh. It was a challenge to know when our test was actually correct vs. when they were written wrong.
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent