📚 Svelte reading list app

This is my first project using Svelte. It's a reading list app using Firestore and Google's Books API.

If you have any feedback, hit me up on Twitter @alexandraabbas.

🚀 Get started

If you'd like to run this app locally, create a .env file in the root folder with the following necessary variables:

• FIREBASE_API_KEY
• FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN
• FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL
• FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID
• FIREBASE_BUCKET
• FIREBASE_SENDER_ID
• FIREBASE_APP_ID
• BOOKS_API_KEY

Your BOOKS_API_KEY will probably be the same as your FIREBASE_API_KEY is you're using the same Google Cloud project.

For more more information about how to generate your Firabase config object, visit the Firebase documentation.

After configuring Firebase, create a Firestore instance and a collection named books. Visit the Cloud Firestore documentation for more information.

Install the dependencies...

cd svelte-reading-app
npm install

...then start Rollup:

npm run dev

Navigate to localhost:5000. You should see the app running.

Building and running in production mode

To create an optimised version of the app:

npm run build

You can run the newly built app with npm run start. This uses sirv, which is included in your package.json's dependencies so that the app will work when you deploy to platforms like Heroku.

Single-page app mode

By default, sirv will only respond to requests that match files in public. This is to maximise compatibility with static fileservers, allowing you to deploy your app anywhere.

If you're building a single-page app (SPA) with multiple routes, sirv needs to be able to respond to requests for any path. You can make it so by editing the "start" command in package.json:

"start": "sirv public --single"

Deploying to the web

With now

Install now if you haven't already:

npm install -g now

Then, from within your project folder:

cd public
now deploy --name my-project

As an alternative, use the Now desktop client and simply drag the unzipped project folder to the taskbar icon.

With surge

Install surge if you haven't already:

npm install -g surge

Then, from within your project folder:

npm run build
surge public my-project.surge.sh