Manage Book Trading Club Application

Project Overview

Manage Book Trading Club is a full stack application that allows the user to search for books and add them to a collection in the user's account. The user can see all books from other users, make a request/receive trade requests to trade book with others or cancel the trade request at anytime.

Environment

• MongoDB
• Express
• Node
• EJS
• Passport,
• Google Book API
• Javascript
• HTML
• CSS

The logic of the application is described below:

As an authenticated user

• The user can view all books posted by other users
• THe user can add a new book
• The user can update his/her profile setting
• The user can propose a trade and wait for the other users to accept the trade.

How did I build this application?

The application is divided into 3 parts:

1. Backend:
   • bcrypt: hashing user's password when signing up and compare hashed password
   • body-parser: parsing form input
   • connect-flash : raising error messages when errors occur
   • cookie-parser : parsing cookie
   • ejs : view engine
   • express : routing middleware
   • express-session : session
   • helmet : secure express app by setting various HTTP header
   • mongoose : database
   • morgan: HTTP request logger middleware
   • passport: Authentication Middleware
   • passport-local: Authentication Strategy
2. Frontend:
   • Bootstrap
3. Book API
   • Google Book API

What's Still to Come

• Create a Reset password handler
• Use a Front End Framework to seperate backend and frontend.