BookWorm

a platform where readers can read books and publishers can publish their books

This is a web app made with GO

App feature

• Readers can join as member to read books online by subscribing to specific books
• Readers can subscribe at most 3 books at a time
• Publishers can publish their books online but an admin have to approve to book to be published
• Admins can reject/unpublish any book if its necessary
• Admins can also block any specific users if its necessary too
• More feature yet to come

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NB: UI Needs more development, we are working on that slowly. Actually we've just built the backend to see how golang works!

Installation

• Install GO language on your Linux-based machine form here and set your GOPATH
• From terminal enter go get github.com/sonjoydabnath/BookWorm
• Now enter cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/sonjoydabnath/BookWorm
• Edit the config.json file with your host, port, database.host, database.port database.schema database.username, database.password
• Now run the backup.sql to create the full database
• Finally From terminal enter go run main.go and go to browser

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Admin login credentials are already in use from given database, \will be updated

• Email: sonjoy@gmail.com
• Password: sonjoy

Other Libraries used

• github.com/gorilla/securecookie
• github.com/gorilla/mux
• github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql

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