Book-Manager

Welcome to the Book Manager!

Installation

The project conatains 3 directories frontend, backend and Photos.

To start the Backend server:

• Goto backend folder in your terminal
• Run npm install
• Run npm start

This should start the backend server
You can test whether the server is up or not by clicking on localhost:5000/.
This should give you We are live message!

To start the Frontend server:

• Goto frontend folder in your terminal
• Run npm install
• Run npm start

This should start the frontend server
You can test whether the server is up or not by clicking on localhost:3000/.
This page will bring you to the Login page.

Credentials

Admin:

Email: [email protected]
Password: admin

User:

Email: [email protected]
Password: user

Features

User Features

1. Issue a book from the library
2. Return a book already issued by the user
3. Search a book by its Title, Author Name and Year of Publication
4. See the most frequently issued books

Admin Features

... All the normal User features plus,

1. Add a new Book to the library
2. Change the number of copies of an already existing book in the library
3. Delete a Book from the library

Please find the screenshots of different pages in Photos directory.

About the Database

The User databse contains the following fields:

1. _id
2. firstName (string)
3. lastName (string)
4. password (string)
5. emailid (string)
6. books (Array) [Contains the id of the books this user has issued]
7. isAdmin (boolean)

The Books databse contains the following fields:

1. _id
2. title (string)
3. author (string)
4. year (string)
5. copies (number) [The number of copies of this book available in the library]
6. borrowed (number) [The number of times this book has been issued so far]