Share libraries/collections publicly to all users (including unauthenticated ones)

[dylanvorster]

Describe your suggested feature

I think the reach of this project would spread much further if there was a way to mark various collections as public. This would allow users to host a sort of public-gallery of their book collections. I myself have many art books and want to showcase the collection to my friends (or anyone who visits my site) as they can also get a better idea of my interests etc..

One way to hack this with MVP, might be to provide an environment variable which makes the 'get' / read routes and pages public, but still disables any post or put requests. Obviously long term it could be neat to mark collections as public and/or provide a shareable public URL.

I know theres a ton of other stuff you still working on but also wanted to just say well-done, even in this early stage of the project its very fleshed out and was super easy to run with docker.

Other details

This project is super polished and incredibly well engineered. How you only have like 5 stars is beyond me >_>

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[alessandrojean]

Thanks for the feedback!

Being able to share your library publicly (or even only parts of it) is something I pretend implementing eventually, but it's not something I plan to add in the first major stable release since it would require a lot of changes. I have this exact same use case need as well, so I get your suggestion.

Currently, the server already supports a similar feature by allowing libraries to be shared to other users (always with writing permissions as well -- still needs improvements), but the user picker is still needed to be added in the client while editing a library. It just needs to be improved by allowing a Public/Private chooser, similar to how Google Drive does with file sharing.

Thanks for testing the Docker image as well, glad it worked for you. :)