BooksTracker - Track what you read and what you have in qeue.

Be sure to add that lovely star 😀 and fork it for your own copy

How it's made

Tech used: Handlebars, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Express, MongoDB and GoogleOauth.

Notable Dependencies:

connect-mongo (https://www.npmjs.com/package/connect-mongo)
- Used to save cookie in database that allowed for user's session to persist.
dotenv (https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv)
- Intergration of .env file that allows protection and processing of environment variables.
express-session (https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-session)
- Middleware that aids formating of user session cookie data. Used in cooperation with 'connect-mongo' to store the session in the database.
mongoose (https://mongoosejs.com/)
- Schema-based solution to model application data. Used to validate/organize database user and story entries.
morgan (https://www.npmjs.com/package/morgan)
- Node. js and Express middleware to log HTTP requests and errors. Used to simply process of testing/troubleshooting during development.
passport (https://www.passportjs.org/)
- Authentication middleware for Node.js. Used to modularize the authentication process with OAuth and Google login.
passport-local (https://www.passportjs.org/packages/passport-local/)
- The local authentication strategy authenticates users using a username and password.
ejs- local (https://ejs.co/)
- embeded javascript templating language for the frontend.
bcrypt (https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt)
- A library to help you hash passwords.
Handlebars

I used Materilized for the first time to add quick, consistent, and responsive styling.

Optimizations: implement a price searcher to buy new books.

Add a .env file in the config folder with these two values: