Houston Book Link

See our Houston Hackathon submission.

Technology stack

Node script to scrape Overdrive APIs for library entities (/server/extractor)
Postgres to store scraped library entries from Overdrive
Node express server to expose endpoints for use by front-end
CreateReactApp for React front-end, with Bootstrap & ionicons

To serve application

Get your Overdrive API credentials
- If you want to work with Houston libraries, ask the current maintainer for them
Set the OVERDRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET and OVERDRIVE_CLIENT_ID environment variables
Checkout and navigate into the repo
Install node from https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Install postgres (brew install postgres for mac users)
Create the database with createdb postgres
Run npm install to get dependencies
Run npm run build-backend then npm run migrate then npm run run-seeds to set up your database schema
Run npm run extractor to populate your database with books from Overdrive
Run npm start to start up Node express server and serve front-end

Contributing

Please make changes in feature branches and submit a pull request to master.
New contributors welcome!