Project 1

Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

BookPundit is a book review webiste. In which a user can read as well as write his/her own reviews on a collection of 5000 books. I've used flask and python as a backend and for database I'm using postgres sql. In this project I've used flask, python and postgres as database.

Short description of the various file contained in the project

• Application.py: This file is used to run the main application.
• init.py: This file binds the application with the database and all the other neccessary packages.
• forms.py: This file contains the all the forms used in the project as an flask form object.
• models.py: This file contains all the ORMs like Book, User and Review.
• route.py: This file contains all the routes as well as the functions to retrive and post all the necessary queries.

How to run

First of all you have to set the environment varibale DATABASE_URL as your heroku postgress database URI. Open terminal or cmd (Windows) and type in the following command

• on Mac/Linux use export DATABASE_URL=your database URI
• on Windows use 'set DATABASE_URL=your database URI`

After that run application.py as a python program

API Doc

You can request the details of the book using its isbn. Like GET "/api/isbn"