GitHub Repository: https://github.com/RubinoD1/MERN-Book-Search

Live Page: https://pure-river-39227.herokuapp.com/

This is a MERN book search application that allows users to search for books using the Google Books API. Functionality of this app includes:

• The ability to make a user account / login using email and password credentials.
• The ability to search for books
• Logged in users have the extra functionality of being able to save / remove items from a saved book list.

AS AN avid reader
I WANT to search for new books to read
SO THAT I can keep a list of books to purchase

1. When I load the search engine, I am presented with a menu with these options:

• Search for books
• Login/ signup
• input option to search for books and a submit button

2. When I click the Search for Books menu option:

THEN I am presented with an input field to search for books and a submit button

3. WHEN I am not logged in and enter a search term in the input field and click the submit button

THEN I am presented with several search results, each featuring a book’s title, author, description, image, and a link to that book on the Google Books site

4. WHEN I click on the Login/Signup menu option

THEN a modal appears on the screen with a toggle between the option to log in or sign up

5. WHEN the toggle is set to Signup

THEN I am presented with three inputs for a username, an email address, and a password, and a signup button

6. WHEN the toggle is set to Login

THEN I am presented with two inputs for an email address and a password and login button

7. WHEN I enter a valid email address and create a password and click on the signup button

THEN my user account is created and I am logged in to the site

8. WHEN I enter my account’s email address and password and click on the login button

THEN the modal closes and I am logged in to the site

9. WHEN I am logged in to the site

THEN the menu options change to Search for Books, an option to see my saved books, and Logout

10. WHEN I am logged in and enter a search term in the input field and click the submit button

THEN I am presented with several search results, each featuring a book’s title, author, description, image, and a link to that book on the Google Books site and a button to save a book to my account

11. WHEN I click on the Save button on a book

THEN that book’s information is saved to my account

12. WHEN I click on the option to see my saved books

THEN I am presented with all of the books I have saved to my account, each featuring the book’s title, author, description, image, and a link to that book on the Google Books site and a button to remove a book from my account

13. WHEN I click on the Remove button on a book

THEN that book is deleted from my saved books list

14. WHEN I click on the Logout button

THEN I am logged out of the site and presented with a menu with the options Search for Books and Login/Signup and an input field to search for books and a submit button