Full Stack Web Development Nanodegree Project #2: Book Catalog

Overview

The Book Catalog is the second project for Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree Program provided by Udacity. It requires to build a RESTful web application that provides a list of books within a variety of authros as well as user registration and authentication system.

The project has the following goals:

• Develop a web app with Flask framework
• Make a web server in Python
• Work with SQLite
• Implement CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) functionality
• Implement third-party OAuth auhtentication
• Serialize data
• Create JSON APIs

Deployment

You can check the project deployment by visiting http://54.191.192.22.xip.io.

You can check web and database server configuration in Linux Server Configuration repository. For deployment, PostgreSQL is used instead of SQLite.

Features

The Book Catalog application has the following features:

• Providing a list of authors
• Providing a list of books of each author
• Implementing a third-party authentication & authorization service via Google Accounts
• Allowing registered users to add, edit, and delete their own records

JSON APIs

The Book Catalog application provides access to the following JSON APIs:

• [GET] /authors/<int:author_id>/JSON – Info about all books of the author

  • id: number
  • title: string(50)
  • description: string(5000)

• [GET] /authors/<int:author_id>/<int:book_id>/JSON – Info about the book

  • id: number
  • title: string(50)
  • description: string(5000)

• [GET] /authors/JSON – List of authors

  • id: number
  • name: string(50)

Getting Started

Loading Mock Data to the Database

To create database, run the following command:

python database_setup.py

To populate database with mock data, run the following command:

python lotsofbooks.py

Running Locally

To run Book Catalog from the terminal, use the following command:

python application.py

To access the application via your browser, visit http://localhost:8000.

Authors

• Alexandra Baturina