A community book review site with accounts, ratings and search. Users add books, rate and review them, and find their next read. Built with Flask and MongoDB.
BookMarks is a place to share opinions on books you've read and find your next one. It was one of my Code Institute projects: a full-stack app with its own accounts and database.
What it does
Home shows the six highest-rated books and a set of editors' picks, each with a short write-up
Search matches a term against every book's title, author, summary and genre, and says how many results it found
Accounts: anyone can browse, but adding books and reviews needs an account. Passwords are hashed, never stored as typed
Ownership: the person who added a book can edit or delete it. Deleting asks for confirmation first and removes the book's reviews with it
Reviews: one per user per book, editable later, and each book's average rating updates as reviews come in
How it's built
A Flask app rendering Jinja templates, with MongoDB holding the users, books and reviews. Pages are rendered on the server, styled with Materialize.
Keeping it running
It moved from Heroku to Render in 2022, when Heroku's free tier ended. In March 2026 I brought it up to date: Flask 3, plain pymongo in place of the Flask-PyMongo wrapper, and uv for dependencies and the Render build.
