writing_a_book5.txt

For the frontend, I'll guide you through creating a simple React application that interacts with the Node.js TypeScript server you've set up.

Setting up a React application

First, make sure you have create-react-app installed globally:
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npm install -g create-react-app
Create a new React application:
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create-react-app book-writing-app --template typescript
Change to the newly created app directory:
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cd book-writing-app
Install Axios for making API requests:
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npm install axios
Creating a React component to interact with the server

In the src folder of the React app, create a new file called BookWriting.tsx.

In BookWriting.tsx, import the necessary dependencies and create a simple form to input the required data for each step of the book writing process:

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import React, { useState } from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';

const BookWriting: React.FC = () => {
  const [step, setStep] = useState(0);
  const [text, setText] = useState('');
  const [chapterNumber, setChapterNumber] = useState(0);
  const [previousChapters, setPreviousChapters] = useState('');
  const [summaries, setSummaries] = useState('');
  const [responseText, setResponseText] = useState('');

  const handleSubmit = async (event: React.FormEvent) => {
    event.preventDefault();

    const response = await axios.post('http://localhost:3001/process_step', {
      step,
      text,
      chapterNumber,
      previousChapters,
      summaries,
    });

    setResponseText(response.data.text);
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
        <label>
          Step:
          <input
            type="number"
            value={step}
            onChange={(event) => setStep(parseInt(event.target.value))}
          />
        </label>
        <br />
        {/* Add more input fields for other data */}
        {/* ... */}
        <button type="submit">Submit</button>
      </form>
      <pre>{responseText}</pre>
    </div>
  );
};

export default BookWriting;
Update the input fields and state variables as needed for your specific use case.

In src/App.tsx, import and render the BookWriting component:

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import React from 'react';
import './App.css';
import BookWriting from './BookWriting';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <BookWriting />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;
Now, you can start your React app with npm start, and it will interact with your Node.js server. The form will allow you to input the required data for each step, and the response will be displayed below the form.

For reading the book as it's written, you can fetch the chapters from your server (by creating an API endpoint to serve the saved chapters) and display them in a separate component or within the existing BookWriting component.