Readbook-tracker web application

Inspired by goodreads website. This is a spring mvc web application. An easy way to track your books 📚

Features

1. Login with GitHub.
2. Search for any book in the world 🌍
3. Save a book in PostgreSQL database.
4. Track your book by giving them stars 🌟, startDate, completedDate and current Reading Status.
5. Sort books from the database by readingStatus.

Lessons learnt

1. GitHub authentication with spring-security.
2. Spring webclient.
3. API for books was private final String BOOK_URL = "https://openlibrary.org/works/";
4. API for cover_urls = private String COVER_URL = "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/";
5. Spring data jpa. Using two primary keys also called composite keys to fetch data.
6. Frontend was thymleaf template engine.

Link for website

readbook-tracker