Library - A Laravel Project

The existing Library catalogue is a nice resource but is lacking with its interface. There are some annoying setting enabled which make it hard to navigate using a phone. This project is a learning exercise in web scraping, back end frameworks and front end SPAs.

Approach

Ideally there would be an API available that could facilitate requests to a Svelte instance on the front end. This being absent we are using the existing website to create an API based on laravel.

TODO

• Create at least one end point to get data from
• Initialise Svelte with laravel mix
• Implement a search bar to recreate search from main site
• Add an endpoint to get one specific book information (including availability)
• Handle pagination

Eventually

• Reserve books using a Library ID

Notes

We want to handle the login so that we can see things ahout our account like lists.

• Save barcode to encrypted localstorage
• Add a login form to the dashboard URL on front end
• Handle login using the API to fetch data
• Perform actions like saving to a list
• If possible login on initial load (help power buttons in search result)

Pages

• Dashboard with a series of links (fetch each tab and present in one page ?)
• History page
• List of saved items