BookPal - Stardance

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Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a project I just finished and launched: Book Pal 📚

It’s a frontend-only React app that lets you search the Open Library database. I wanted to build something clean, fast, and get my hands dirty using an API. It’s hosted on Netlify.

One of the challenging bits was dealing with the API response payload. It took some effort to understand the layout of the data and to make sure missing covers didn't break the layout.

Drop a comment and let me know what you think, or if you find any cool bugs!

🌏 Live Demo: https://bookpalstardance.netlify.app/
💻 Code: https://github.com/Binamra-rs/book_pal

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@binamra-rs on BookPal · 11 days ago

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A decent working version of BookPal has been completed. This version features searching the API on the basis of book title, author’s name and genre.

The coverpage for each book has been loaded through another API provided by Open Library, namely the Cover API. Each card is loaded as a ReactJS component in the virtual DOM.

BookPal offers intuitive GUI and fairly fast loading time for the free API.

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@binamra-rs on BookPal · 12 days ago

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Started “BookPal”, a simple ReactJS-based webpage that allows the user to search for books by book title, author, name, etc. Currently working on configuring the api request call