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!