X Library

Self-Hosted, Open, and Editable Library Management Platform

Check out the cross-platform mobile client for this API: X-Library Mobile

Ideas To Implement Next

• Federated Network of Book Reviews/Recommendations

  • Ability for peers to sync with other peers
  • Social networking capabilities(follow users from other instances(ActivityPub?))

• RSS Feed for reviews

  • Use ISBN database services to link the book inside the review to an external source

• Statistics

  • GoodReads style statistics for both books and users

• Add books from an external source

  • use OpenLibrary or a similar service to fetch books with the ISBN number

Note for Clients

The API now allows book creation/addition with only the ISBN number, thus, the OpenLibrary API can be leveraged in your client to search for books, authors, genres, etc. Then use the retrieved ISBN to add the book to the X Library platform.

Development

Setup

To start your Phoenix server:

• Update dev.exs config with your database credentials
• Rename dev.example_secrets.exs to dev.secrets.exs and follow the examples to setup the authentication secrets.
• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Create, migrate, and seed your database with mix ecto.setup
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server

Usage

Check out the OpenAPI Docs Website: https://rasjonell.github.io/x-library/

Or jump to API Usage Docs

You can download the OpenApi spec and import it in Insomnia or Postman and get a testable API.

Importing OpenAPI specs into your favorite API platform.

• Postman: Working With OpenAPI
• Insomnia:
  • Open up Insomnia
  • Navigate to Dashboard
  • Click Create
  • Choose URL
  • Paste this URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasjonell/x-library/main/x-library-api-spec.yaml
  • Answer the prompts to create a new Design Document