RAD-Group-Assignment

Library Management System (UCSC)

This is a sample web app to manage books and users. Issue books and returning of pre-issued books are also covered by this system.

Users & Functionalities

Student

• register to the app
• view and edit profile
• change password
• search books and view availabilty
• view issue history

Admin

• view and edit profile
• search for books and view availability
• view, Edit or Delete existing books
• add new books
• issue a book
• return a book issued earlier
• view all stats of the library
• view issue log and the profile of students
• view the profile of all admins

Created with MERN Stack

• MongoDB - Document database - to store data as JSON
• Express.js - Back-end web application framework running on top of Node.js
• React - Front-end web app framework used
• Node.js - JavaScript runtime environment

Middleware

• Redux - For flux architecture, and fetching rapidly data
• Mongoose - ODM for MongoDB

Steps followed to setup the project

Setting up server and database

1. Initialise a package.json file by entering the following command in terminal, after getting into the project directory :

npm init

2. Install npm packages required for backend side :

npm install
npm i -D nodemon

Setting up the client

1. Create a folder 'client' in the project directory. Ensure that you have create-react-app CLI installed. Enter the following commands in terminal :

cd client
create-react-app .
cd ..

2. In the package.json of the server, add the following scripts :

"client-install": "npm install --prefix client",
"client": "npm start --prefix client",

3. Install Redux for maintaining the state :

npm i redux react-redux redux-thunk

4. start project

npm start