2016rshah/bookshelf

:books: Showcase the books you have read.

bookshelf's Issues

New README screenshot image

Ever since PR #1, the README image is outdated. Show a screenshot of the updated page in the README

Allow multiple books with no ISBN

If the library API can't find the book, the user should still be able to create the book and leave the ISBN blank. As of right now, they can do so once, but the second time they will have to enter some ISBN number. We need to find a way to enforce the uniqueness constraint for everything except blank ISBNs

Crashes when colon in search term

If you try to search for a book with a colon in the title it will crash.

Reproduce by trying to search for

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

with and without the colon

Search bar for new book

Display possible isbn and their cover art for the person to choose rather than the first result

Notify user why something went wrong

As of right now, if the user enters bad input for some reason, the incorrect field will be highlighted in red. Typically this is alright, but if the error is something not obvious, we would like to tell the user how to fix it.

For example, ISBN numbers have to be unique so you can't enter the same book twice. Whenever you try to, the ISBN field will just be highlighted in red. Instead it would be better to actually let the user know that they already have entered that book.

Better navigation links

For example, in the searching, selecting books, have navigation back to bookshelf (at the top of the page) etc.

Usernames rather than emails with Devise

Ideally the user could be identified by their username rather than their email address all the time.

Make sure that this is backwards compatible with the site that is already deployed and the database that already has emails in it (just make that their username or something, I guess).

Check out this and this to get started.

Let me know if you have any questions or if you're interested in working on this!

Collapse Book Series

Rather than having a ton of books all from one series, allow them to be collapsed into a set of a few books that are all part of the same series. Kind of like box sets

Max width of images on landing page

Make the max-width of the images on the landing page 100% so the page doesn't get too big for the screen of smaller devices

Fixed book image size

The book covers have different sizes when displaying in 'Your Bookshelf'. This looks messy.

Don't let user create multiple instances of same book

Check to make sure that isbn numbers don't match

Better landing page

To show it to people without needing them to login

Make text boxes full width on mobile

Text boxes are very narrow on mobile, should fill more of the width of the screen

Show Default book cover if cover is unavailible

By appending ?default=false at the end of each image, the cover API can return a 404 rather than a blank image. Use this 404 with a javascript fallback to show a default book cover instead.

Will need a default book cover. Maybe something old-timey like what pops up when you google vintage book cover. Best case scenario we also cycle between a few different options. Alternatively one can be custom designed.

Make the fields in the search function required

As of right now if you try to search for a book and leave the author blank you will get a 500 internal server error or somesuch nonsense. To fix this easily, make the search fields in the search function required.

Update README

Include the new method of searching for ISBN, etc.