express-locallibrary-tutorial

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Project Summary

This web app has the basic capabilities neccessary to manage the catalog of a library of books.

Following instructions from The Odin Project and a detailed tutorial from MDN Web Docs, I learned how to create a full stack web application from start to finish.

Project Details

I learned the following from this tutorial:

1. The Express Web Framework
2. How to setup a Node development environment
3. Using a database to store my app's data
4. How to setup a CRUD interface for a web app
5. MVC architecture
6. Working with forms
7. Deploying my app to production

I used the following technologies to complete my app:

• Node.js - javascript runtime
• Express - web application framwork
• EJS - plain javascript templating language
• MongoDB - NoSQL databse
• Heroku - cloud platform as a service
• Git - version control system

While this tutorial had detailed explanations and provided the code to build the core components of the local library application, I implemented the following functionalities on my own:

• Deleting a book
• Updating an author
• Deleting a genre
• Updating a genre
• Deleting a book instance
• Updating a book instance
• Formatting the date for user input

I used the following resources to help me create this:

• The Odin Project
• MDN Web Docs

Additional Images

Create Book Form

All Bookinstances