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# RESTful APIs :Build a BookSearch App -Ver 2.0
## Build a BookSearch App without Custom Hook
### Initial Steps
1. Create vite+react project
```bash
// Create Vite+React Project
$npm create vite@latest
>Project name : bookshelf
>Select a framework: >React
>Select a variant: >JavaScript
$cd bookshelf
```
2. Open the project with visual studio code and add a few dependencies
```bash
// Open the project
$code .
inside of vscode terminal
$npm install
$npm install bootstrap
$npm run dev
```
3. Open App.jsx and add the following library at top area.
```jsx
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';
```
4. Open index.html and add third-party stylesheet bootstrap as shown below:
```html
```
```html
Book Shelf
```
5. Test and check the BookShelf App by invoking the following:
```bash
// inside of vscode terminal
$npm run dev
```
6. Before we start making a new component, open App.jsx file and delete initial code created when initiated the new project except for the main App() function block.
````jsx
// App.jsx template
/** @format */
/**
* NOTE:::
* This is the code that would go into the project's main App.jsx
* I put it here so that the main App.jsx is clean
* as we are building other, small components throughout the
* course.
*
*/
import './App.css';
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';
import { useState } from 'react';
```javascriptreact
function App() {
...
return (
<>
...
)
}
export default App;
````
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