Book Search Engine

This is a Google Books API search engine built with a GraphQL API on an Apollo Server.

The purpose of this project was to take a fully functioning book search engine that was built with a RESTful API and refactor it to use a GraphQL API.

Screenshots

Built With

• JavaScript
• React
• NoSQL/MongoDB
• Mongoose
• JWT
• GraphQL
• Apollo Server

Website

• https://book-search-engine.up.railway.app/

(Recently Learned) Skills I Used

• Creating an Apollo Server and applying it to an Express.js server as middleware
• Modifying existing authentication middleware to work in the context of a GraphQL API
• Creating an Apollo Provider so that requests can communicate with an Apollo server
• Building API endpoints with GraphQL in a MERN application
• Using GraphQL queries and mutations to fetch and modify server-side data
• Configuring and deploying a MERN application to Heroku (and, later, Railway)