reading_tracker's Introduction

Reading Tracker

A Django application to track your reading.

Features

Search Functionality: Users can search for books by title, author, publisher, subject, ISBN, OCCN or OCLC.
Book Details: Displays comprehensive information about each book, sourced from the Google Books API, including cover images, descriptions, and publication details.
Mobile Compatability: Responsive design ensures the website is accessible and user-friendly on both desktop and mobile devices, allowing users to track their reading on the go.
Reading Lists: Allow users to create personalized reading lists to organize books they want to read, are currently reading, or have finished reading.
Progress Tracking: Enable users to track their reading progress for each book, such as marking pages read or time listened.
User Profiles: Enable users to create profiles where they can track their own individual reading history.

Screenshots

Book List Page

Book Search Page

Book Create Page

Technologies Used

Python
JavaScript
Django
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Cloud Storage Buckets
- Cloud Secrets
Docker
Gunicorn
Google Books API

Setup

This repo is currently set up to be run on Google Cloud Platform in accordance with this documentation.

If you would like to run this program locally, you can either use the instructions provided in the docs above to utilize GCP services, or you can fork this repo, remove its GCP dependencies, run pip install -r requirements.txt in the terminal of your choice, and do your usual

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

python manage.py collectstatic

python manage.py runserver