The API is built using Express, a nodejs framework for building network application. The database is built using mongodb , a NoSQL database.

This defines the way the books are stored in the database. The following properties are used to model the BooK

• title
• category
• author
• publishDate
• description
• pageCount
• cover_photo
• notification
• created_at
• updated_at
• price
• file_id

This defines the way the users are stored in the database. This is the model used to implement authentication in our application. I'm using passport, a nodejs package to implement local authentication in our application. The user is defined using the following properties

• email
• password
• role
• books_downloaded
• books_needed
• created_at
• updated_at

Alright enough hype about the database. Lets get onto the cool stuff.

This enables the frontend to interact with our database, through making GET, POST, DELETE, UPDATE, PUT requests to our backend.

To signup a user, a post request will be sent to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/users/signup with the necessary users's data. A user's json object is returned on successful signup, else a json error message is returned.

A post request is sent to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/users/login containing user's email and password. A user's json object is returned on successful login, else a json error message is returned. A cookie returned from a successful login is stored on the user's browser to enable the user navigate different pages and still stay logged in.

A post request is sent to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/users/logout . This returns a json object with a message, You are logged out

......This is under implementation but almost done. ..........

Make a post request to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/books/create-book with neccessary data for creating a book. eg title, author, cover_photo, publishDate etc A json book object is returned if the book is created successfully else a json error object is returned.

Make a post request to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/books/upload with the book's file data. This returns a json file object of the file uploaded.

A GET request to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/books/files returns a json object with all files in our database, else it returns a json error message "No files exist".

Make a get request to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/books/files/YOUR_FILENAME_HERE. This returns a json object with that file.

Make a DELETE request to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/books/files/YOUR_FILE_ID_HERE. this returns a success message or an error message if request isn't successful

N:B A GET request to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/books returns a json object with all books (Note: books contain an ids pointing to book files)

A GET request to http://OURWEB_ADDRESS/api/books/ID_OF_BOOK returns a json object with the book with that id.

THANKS AND FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO MAKE ANY SUGGESTIONS