Book E-commerce Project

This is a Book E-commerce Project that utilizes Django and Django Rest Framework for the backend API, and React for the frontend.

Project Overview

The project includes features such as viewing a list of books, searching for books by title or author, sorting books by different categorizing books.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11.4
• Node.js and npm

Installation

1. Clone the repository

  git Clone https://github.com/yashladekar/book-store-django-and-react.git

2. Change to the project directory

cd bookstore

3. Install backend Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Migrate the database

python manage.py migrate

5. Install frontend dependencies

cd ..
cd reactapp
npm install

6. Start frontend

npm start

7. start backend

cd ..
cd bookstore
python manage.py runserver 

Appendix

The Django API will be running at http://localhost:8000/ and the React application will be running at http://localhost:3000/

Features

• Book List: View a list of available books.
• Search: Search for books by title or author.
• Categories: View books by different categories.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.