App is implementation of library system for storing data about books, publishers, and authors.
All users of the app are enabled to see all authors, books, and publishers, while only admin users have the ability to perform basic CRUD operations.
To prevent CRUD operations from POSTMAN and similar tools, middleware is added to check if user is logged in and if user is admin. Checking of user role and signin status is done by using httponlycookie. If user has jwttoken stored in cookie user is logged in, while if jwtToken role value is admin, user is authorized to perform CRUD operations.
Admin can:
- Add, edit, and delete authors, publishers and books
Users can:
- View authors, publishers and books
App enables admin to store images for authors and books. For this purpose mutler express middleware is used and static route. Multer will check if user has folder /images on express server and if not one will be created.
All images used in app are stored in server/images folder. In case if user does not upload book or author image there are default images (for books noimg.jpr and for author - noimgUser.jpg)
For importing files in database I used Mongo Compas. I have converted Excel file to JSON and then imported it into Atlas Mongo DB
In order to use the app you shound change in server/config/config.js url for Atlas Mongo DB database and in client/.env file you should store following data:
DATABASE=YOUR MONGODB NAME
PASSWORD=YOUR MONGODB PASSWORD
Default port for connection to the express server is 5000 and default proxy set in package.json in client folder is http://localhost:5000.
For state management Redux toolkit is used. For fetching API data redux thunk middleware is used.
For server express is used and all server logic is stored in server folder.
For UI Material UI (MUI) library is used.