Web application for evaluating, commenting, reading and searching books with supported authentication.

Short description of the application:

Registered users have the ability to rate books and comment on them, delete and edit their comments and ratings, reading individual books as well as creating diary of readed books with the ability to search and to post on blog. Each registered user has his own profile with some basic information about it and its activity on the site and the ability to view other users' profiles.

Unregistered users can review books, comments, ratings, posts, profiles of other users and search the books without any other options.

The site administrator has all the capabilities of the registered user and also the ability to delete and change the ratings and comments of all users as well as a review of all registered users with the possibility of their deletion.

Books are delivered through the Google Books API.

Technologies:

The following tools were used to create the application:

• Flask web python framework
• CS50.io development environment
• SQLite database
• Heroku service for hosting

Sources:

• https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x
• http://flask.pocoo.org
• https://stackoverflow.com
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_RYQJfiuVU
• https://bootswatch.com/minty

Installing all necessary startup packages in the CS50 environment by executing the command: pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt.

To run locally:

• install git
• git clone https://github.com/Vukan-Markovic/Book-evaluator.git
• install python
• install python3
• install virtualenv
• virtualenv -p python3 venv
• source venv/bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• export FLASK_APP=application.py
• export FLASK_DEBUG=1
• flask run App is running on http://127.0.0.1:5000.

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