📖 Minimalist Book Manager API

Introduction

This is the starter repository for the Further APIs session. It provides a start to creating a Minimalist Book Manager API.

Pre-Requisites

• NodeJS installed (v18.12.1 Long Term Support version at time of writing)

Technologies & Dependencies

• TypeScript
• ExpressJS
• Sequelize
• SQLite3
• Jest
• Supertest
• ESLint

How to Get Started

• Fork this repo to your Github and then clone the forked version of this repo

Running the application

In order to run the unit tests run, firstly install the dependencies (if you haven't already done so)

npm install

Followed by:

npm start

Running the Unit Tests

In order to run the unit tests run, firstly install the dependencies (if you haven't already done so)

npm install

Followed by:

npm test

Tasks

Here are some tasks for you to work on:

📘 Task 1: Implement the following User Story with tests.

User Story: As a user, I want to use the Book Manager API to delete a book using its ID

📘 Extension Task: Oh no! 😭 We've only covered the happy paths in the solution, can you figure out a way to add in exception handling to the project?

• Clue 1: What if someone wants to add a book with an ID for a book that already exists? How do we handle this gracefully?

• Clue 2: What if someone wants to find a book by an ID that doesn't yet exist? How can we improve the API by handling errors gracefully and show a helpful message to the client?