I tracked my book collection on GoodReads until they deprecated their APIs.
Since I have a nice bookshelf on my personal homepage showcasing the books I got in touch with, I needed a way to programmatically process them.
I started with a simple json + covers repo. Later turned it into a proper editor with Lit html.
Today it's an analgam of a static website that I host on GitHub Pages and an express.js app that I use locally to update my collection.
I simply run it as:
> npm install
> npm start
I do my changes in a browser at http://localhost:8000 then push to GitHub. The site is refreshed by a GitHub action in a few seconds, and that's all, it's live.
I can show the latest bookshelf in my main website with including a script and
inserting a my-bookshelf element into the html:
<script type="module" src="https://bookshelf.csokavar.hu/bookshelf.js"></script>
<my-bookshelf src="https://bookshelf.csokavar.hu/books.json" />
This is a good way to separate the book collection from the main website and maintain an integration between the two at the same time.
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