GET /books

Returns the list of books from the library, will be helpful if you are trying to display all of the books at once

Endpoint URL

http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/books

Example code

const loadBooks = async () => {
    try {
        const response = await fetch("/api/books");
        const books = await response.json();

        // Sort the books by _id
        books.sort((a, b) => a._id - b._id);

        return books;
    } catch (error) {
        console.error("Error fetching books data:", error);
        throw error;
    }
};

Example response

[
  {
    "_id": 1,
    "newrelease":false,
    "title": "Unlocking Android",
    "isbn": "1933988673",
    "pageCount": 416,
    "publishedDate": {
      "$date": "2009-04-01T00:00:00.000-0700"
    },
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/AKIAJC5RLADLUMVRPFDQ.book-thumb-images/ableson.jpg",
    "shortDescription": "Unlocking Android: A Developer's Guide provides concise, hands-on instruction for the Android operating system and development tools. This book teaches important architectural concepts in a straightforward writing style and builds on this with practical and useful examples throughout.",
    "longDescription": "Android is an open source mobile phone platform based on the Linux operating system and developed by the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of over 30 hardware, software and telecom companies that focus on open standards for mobile devices. Led by search giant, Google, Android is designed to deliver a better and more open and cost effective mobile experience.    Unlocking Android: A Developer's Guide provides concise, hands-on instruction for the Android operating system and development tools. This book teaches important architectural concepts in a straightforward writing style and builds on this with practical and useful examples throughout. Based on his mobile development experience and his deep knowledge of the arcane Android technical documentation, the author conveys the know-how you need to develop practical applications that build upon or replace any of Androids features, however small.    Unlocking Android: A Developer's Guide prepares the reader to embrace the platform in easy-to-understand language and builds on this foundation with re-usable Java code examples. It is ideal for corporate and hobbyists alike who have an interest, or a mandate, to deliver software functionality for cell phones.    WHAT'S INSIDE:        * Android's place in the market      * Using the Eclipse environment for Android development      * The Intents - how and why they are used      * Application classes:            o Activity            o Service            o IntentReceiver       * User interface design      * Using the ContentProvider to manage data      * Persisting data with the SQLite database      * Networking examples      * Telephony applications      * Notification methods      * OpenGL, animation & multimedia      * Sample Applications  ",
    "status": "PUBLISH",
    "authors": [
      "W. Frank Ableson",
      "Charlie Collins",
      "Robi Sen"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "Open Source",
      "Mobile"
    ],
    "favourited": true
  },
  ...

This only shows the first book but all books in the library will be returned, this is not recommended to be called regularly as it can be quite taxing on a machine and slow down your users browser

Response fields

Name	Type	Description
_id	integer	This is the identification number, which is unique to each specific book
newrelease	Boolean	A Boolean value to determine whether or not the book is a new release and would therefore show up in the new release section if this is true
title	string	The title of the book
isbn	string	The International Standard Book Number for this specific book
pageCount	integer	The number of pages in the book, all pages are included
publishedDate	date	The date at which this copy of the book was first published
thumbnailUrl	string	Image URL for the thumbnail or cover of the book
shortDescription	string	A short description of the book, acting as a blurb
longDescription	string	A more extensive description which covers the major points of the book
status	string	Whether or not the book is currently published, so far all the books in the library are
authors	array of strings	An array of all authors who contributed to the book
categories	array of strings	The listed genres / categories of the book as all books are non-fiction at the moment
favourited	Boolean	Whether or not the book is a favourite for the user, as no identification system is being used, this is a global property