This project contains NodeJS Express backend-server for reedtheesbooks-client implemented with Typescript. The server integrates with New York Times API & enables the client to retrieve list of book genres & top 10 ranked books within each genre, with optional reviews included.
In order to query genres & books from the NYT (a.k.a New York Times) API, you need to setup & configure your own API key for it (instructions can be found at https://developer.nytimes.com/get-started).
The backend assumes that the NYT API key is provided via environment variable named NYT_API_KEY. More on setting this up for unix systems in the next section(Windows users, go & Google or ChatGPT).
Do not include the api key in the repository source files
In order to run the server, perform the following steps
- clone the repo & run
npm ciin the repo root - execute
NYT_API_KEY=<your api key> npm start