Hello everyone! I’m currently working on building a React book finder app that talks with Goodreads’ API. My backend skills are lacking so I wanted to undergo this project to improve on that. But I’m having trouble talking to Goodreads’ API; whenever I try to fetch a response and console.log(...) i…

Did you see the CORS stuff I added to my backend, in app.js? var cors = require("cors"); ... // Allow CORS from any origin app.use(cors()); (I omitted some code from the above example, but the full thing is in the backend repo I linked to above)

So you’re saying I should have a backend api fetch data from the Goodreads’ api? And then move that data to the front-end? What would be an example of a backend api? Like the one from GitHub?

You have two options. Option 1 is like my example above. Ask your user for their api key and then save that to local storage. Read the key value from local storage when you need it. Because it’s saved to local storage they only need to do this once (unless their clear their cache). Option 2 is to …

I’ve actually wanted to figure out option 2 properly for ages, so I had a go at implementing a simple backend to act as a request relay. You can take a look at this to see how I did it. I used the GoodReads API so it’s more useful to you. The bad thing about GR is that they only serve XML for the …

I can’t seem to create a new .env using the command you enclosed in the README.md file: cp .env.example .env When I look inside the repo folder that I cloned to my computer, the .env wasn’t there.

Are you on Windows? I can’t remember the command line commands for that. You can just make a copy of the file however you normally do. (Like, right click, copy, paste, rename)

Nope. It wasn’t there when I cloned the repo.

Look for hidden files. The . hides files on Unix based systems. cp probably worked, you just have the file hidden most likely. The file tree in VSCode would show hidden files if you use that.

That did the trick, my friend! I’m using Atom and it was right there in the tree view. Onward! :grinning:

Trying to fetch response from Goodreads API

JacksonBates October 23, 2019, 8:39pm 15

Thanks, @camperextraordinaire. My windows knowledge is very rusty!

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Trying to fetch response from Goodreads API

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