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Houston Book Link Build Status

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!

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