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 every user
• THe user can add a new book
• The user can update his/her profile setting
• The user can propose a trade and wait for ther other user to accept the trade.

How I built this application?

The application is divided into 3 parts:

1. Backend:
   • bcrypt : hash user's password when signing up and compare hashed password
   • body-parser: parse the input fields from forms
   • connect-flash : raise error messages when errors occur
   • cookie-parser : parse cookie
   • ejs : view engine
   • express : control routes
   • express-session : session
   • helmet : secure express app by setting various HTTP header
   • mongoose : database
   • morgan: HTTP request logger middleware
   • passport: Authentication
   • passport-local Authentication for Local Strategy
2. Frontend:
   • Bootstrap
3. Book API
   • Google Book API

What's Still to Come

• Better error handling
• Lost/forgot password function
• More tests