Library and Book backlog manager

A web app to manage your reading lists.

Features

• Import Marvel Unlimited available issues to build a list of books
• Create a reading list by adding and ordering issues
• Mark books as read to progress your reading lists
• Automatically fill reading list with new issues from series.
• Support multiple readings for a same book

It's basically my own panelhive catered to my own needs and wishes.

What it doesn't do

• Support multiple users (and it is not planned)
• Have UI to manage books/series
• No efforts has been made in terms of accessibility

Note that this may not be production ready yet. Use at your own risks. I'm currently using it on my own and it's working fine but I can't ensure anything about the stability or the security.

Set up

cd backend/
pip -r requirements.txt install
cp .env.sample .env
# edit .env with your values
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py setup

cd ../frontend/
npm ci
cp .env.sample .env
# edit .env with your values
NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider npm run build
# That NODE_OPTIONS is necessary for nuxt2 build on later node versions. Blame Nuxt

Start for development

cd backend/ && python manage.py runserver 8000
cd frontend/ && npm run dev

The app should be available on http://localhost:3000/

Consideration for production

Here is my production infrastructure, use it as your own risks:

On a dev vps on scaleway, I use nginx for SSL termination. SSL is managed using certbot and letsencrypt.

One DNS entry/virtualhost going to django through UWSGI.

One DNS entry/virtualhost going to the dist directory of the frontend.

I use memcached for the cache and mariadb for the database.

Django is run using a virtualenv I created directly in the backend directory.

When I deploy a new version I basically do:

git pull

cd backend/
source venv/bin/activate
python manage.py migrate
sudo /etc/init.d/uwsgi reload

cd ../frontend/
npm run-script build

I set up a cron to checkout new issues from marvel-api like this:

python manage.py checkout_marvel comics

I also set up a second cron to check for issue availability online:

python manape.py checkout_marvel availability