📚 Book Notes

A simple web application built with Node.js, Express.js, EJS, and PostgreSQL that allows users to search for books, save reading notes, rate books, and manage their personal reading collection.

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🚀 Features

• 📖 Add books to your collection
• ⭐ Give each book a personal rating
• 📝 Write notes about books
• 🔍 Search books using the Open Library API
• 🖼️ Automatically display book covers
• ✏️ Edit existing book entries
• 🗑️ Delete books from your collection
• 💾 Store data in PostgreSQL

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🛠️ Technologies Used

• Node.js
• Express.js
• PostgreSQL
• EJS
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Bootstrap
• Axios
• Body Parser

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📂 Project Structure

Book_Notes/
│
├── public/
│   ├── css/
│   └── images/
│
├── views/
│   ├── partials/
│   └── index.ejs
│
├── db.js
├── index.js
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
└── README.md

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⚙️ Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/amirkiarash/Book_Notes.git

Move into the project folder

cd Book_Notes

Install dependencies

npm install

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🗄️ Database Setup

Create a PostgreSQL database.

Example:

CREATE DATABASE book_notes;

Create the required table.

CREATE TABLE books (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    title TEXT,
    author TEXT,
    isbn VARCHAR(20),
    rating INTEGER,
    notes TEXT
);

Update your PostgreSQL credentials inside db.js.

Example:

const db = new pg.Client({
  user: "postgres",
  host: "localhost",
  database: "book_notes",
  password: "your_password",
  port: 5432,
});

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▶️ Run the Project

npm start

or

node index.js

If you have Nodemon installed:

nodemon index.js

The application will be available at

http://localhost:3000

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🌐 API

This project uses the Open Library API to search for books and display book covers.

Documentation:

https://openlibrary.org/developers/api

Cover API:

https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/{ISBN}-L.jpg

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📸 Screenshots

Home Page

Add Book

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📦 Dependencies

{
  "axios": "^1.x",
  "body-parser": "^2.x",
  "ejs": "^3.x",
  "express": "^5.x",
  "pg": "^8.x"
}

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👨‍💻 Author

Amir Mohammadi

GitHub: https://github.com/amirkiarash