Paprback is a showcase for your bookshelves, and place to manage all your readings. A full-stack project that I built to correctly learn React.
Paprback is a virtual bookshelf to manage all your readings. You can search for any book in the world and start building a shelf that you can showcase to the world.
You can visit the production app and start building your shelf at alpha.paprback.co
Clone this repository. You will need node
and npm
installed globally on your machine.
$ git clone
$ cd paprback
$ npm install
$ npm run dev
This is a Next.js project bootstrapped with create-next-app
.
Once you've started the development server, open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.
I've included the env variables in the .env
file, they're just public endpoints anyways.
There's a number of things that can be worked on! If you find any bugs, or any features you think you can add, feel free to do so.
You can dive deeper into the Contributing file to learn more.
I’ve started countless projects that I never finished, so I wanted to commit to building something I could be passionate about and see an attainable end goal. I gathered my friends PJ, a backend developer and Stephen, a talented designer and we got to work by deciding on what the DB Schema should like, the user stories + flow, and how do we differentiate from Goodreads. This was all documented on our Notion workspace.
Anyone that has used Goodreads can tell you it’s a pain, and there’s not much on the internet for avid readers. There’s a big opportunity for designing communities for authors + readers to connect, as well as encouraging book discovery.
I made countless mistakes, but also learned a lot. Though I did want to give up, I stuck to my goal and pushed through to ensure the project was functional to a minimum. As a sole front-end developer with limited guidance, it’s difficult to continue with it. I figured I’d move onto a couple other projects I’d like to built with the newfound knowledge, and continue learning.
Overall, I’m glad I finally completed a project and learned so much in a short time. I’m excited to keep building. Here's a quick list of the React concepts I learned through this project.
As I was learning React, other than using the boilerplate create-react-app
, I did everything from scratch to truly learn what's happening behind the scenes and how to correctly design a full-stack project. As I progressed and hit roadblocks, I rebuilt the project a couple times and then finally settled on my favourite resources to build react projects. I've listed them below.
theme-ui
but I had to build a number of components myself and wanted something simpler for the time being. Chakra UI 1.0 was a much better experience with a great community. There's a number of components, animations and features built in, and provides full flexibility for you to own the styling.react-hook-form
as a library.The backend was built in Ruby by my friend PJ which you can checkout here 👉 Paprback Backend.
Learning how to code can be overwhelming! Everyone has different styles of learning and diffrent things that click with them. Personally, I learn best through videos, examples and code alongs. I've shared some of the resources I used below. I also went on numerous random blogs for random issues, and asked questions within a number of Discord groups.
Courses