Library Inventory & Platform

Technology Stack

Backend

• Gradle, Spring, Spring Security, JWT, Liquibase, Hibernate, Postgresql

Frontend

• NextJS, Tanstack-query, Tailwind, Shadcn/ui

Features

Authentication

• Users can sign up and sign in
• Stateless user authentication with JWTs

Inventory

• Librarians can view the inventory of books

Reservations

• Users can reserve books to borrow at the library
• Librarians can see active and expired reservations
• Librarians can cancel reservations

Borrowing

• Librarians can mark an item as borrowed by a specific user when a user comes at the library
• Librarians can mark a borrowing as returned
• Librarians can extend the return date for a borrowing
• Librarians can see active, late and the history of borrows for each item

Dashboard and misc

• Librarians can view stats of active or late borrows, total registered users, etc.
• Librarians can view graphs of reservations, borrows and returns made each day.

Screenshots

Setup Backend

1. Install the dependencies with Gradle
2. Run `docker compose up -d`
3. Configure application.properties 
4. Run the spring boot app

Setup Frontend

1. Install the dependencies with npm
2. Set BACKEND in `.env` pointing to the spring API, e.g. http://localhost:8090
3. Run `npm run dev`