LIBRARY

I used to share what I’m reading on Goodreads.com but over time:

• It became very slow
• It has 3 trackers as of writing this readme.
• It has many features that is confusing for me.

So I sat down and wrote my own simple library program.

• A reflection of my physical library
• It’s simple
• Fast
• Depends on my input (titles, images…etc) : This proved to be a lot of effort to do when I first tried inserting all my books
• Doesn’t depend on any other system : I needed the option to get the book information from google books
• Free to use
• Free to fork and modify and redistribute
• Has a feature to lend my books to other people
• Doesn’t track me

What’s done so far:

• Allows adding books and taking pictures for covers from phone
• Allows creating book shelves
• Each book can be put in one shelf like real books. no multiple lists nonsense.
• User login

Guidelines

• Keep it simple
• Minimize dependencies
• Don’t add javascript
• Don’t write custom CSS. use bulma.io
• Don’t depend on any external system like social login..etc. I had to create login with google for easier implementation

Start the server

• Clone it
• You need Go installed
• Install dependencies go get .
• Setup the database bin/db setup
• Run the server go run *.go

Deployment

• a remote ssh access to a server with docker and docker-compose
• clone the repo to you machine
• copy .env to the remote server /root/env/library/.env and fill it
• from your machine bin/deploy master user@ip-address
• This will deploy all services to the remote server

Contributions

• Make it simpler
• Make it faster
• Make it more secure