This project is a simple client-sided CRUD application, using Local Storage to persist state across sessions.

I first began by creating user stories:

• My app should add books that I want to track to the application.
• The app should track the title, author, number of pages, and whether or not I've read the book.
• I want the app to display books that I've tracked, with cards for each book.
• I should be able to delete books from the app.
• I should be able to update whether or not a book has been read.
• I want the app to display all previous data in a new session.

I then worked iteratively to fulfill each user story; first creating a skeleton application that would simply display each book, then creating the ability for the user to input data, then updating the display with tracked data, etc.

The handling of the CRUD application is located in src/index.js.

node_modules contains an imported library to create unique hash identifiers for the book Objects.

This application was a simple test to create a usable client-sided CRUD application. The project was refactored to use module and factory function design patterns in order to comply with the functional, prototypal nature of Javscript as a programming language.

I had discovered these design patterns after largely finishing many of the features on this project, so major reafactoring had to be done afterwards to follow these design patterns.

A Map was used to relate each book-card DOM reference to each actual tracked book for constant time lookup and to enforce non-duplicate entries entered by the user. In order to support the use of a Map, I used the object-hash library.

I would like to convert the application to be able to persist state by using user authentication.