The recruitment task for IRIS Web Development team. The framework used is Node.js and the database is mongodb. This is a library management system with authentication using passport.js. The admins can upload any book they want to the website with a few preview images (they are also stored in the database using gridfs and multer). The students can issue the books after the admin's approval and return them back to the library. The students are not allowed to go to the admin's page and vice versa. All the implemented features are mentioned below.
5. npm run dev to run the server and go to localhost:3000
There are two ways one can register, as an admin or as a student..To register as an admin, the user needs a key, which has been set as 123456789 here
To register as student, the user doesn't have to enter any key. In case the user enters the key and it turns out to be wrong, he or she will be redirected back to the registration page and asked to enter the correct key or don't enter a key at all.
Once the validation is complete, he or she will be redirected to the login page, to sign in to the account. After entering the correct credentials, the user will be taken to the homepage of the website according to his postion (admin or a student).
The dashboard page contains all the books that have been uploaded till now. The books have certain tags added to them which can be used to search for them in the search bar (Not case sensitive). An admin can delete, edit or view the book details and it's images from here.
The title, description, isbn and the quantity can be overwritten while new tags and images can be added here.
This page shows all the details and images of the book, for an admin, options for editing and deleting are also present here.
To upload a new book, got the new upload page where you need to enter the title, description, quantity aailable, images of the book, the isbn and a few search tags for the book. Once you click submit, the details will be validated and the book will be uploaded.
In the requests page, you get all issue requests that have been made by the students to borrow a book arranged according to the date (Latest request will be listed first). Here you can approve or decline a request made by a student. Once you approve the book will be lent to the student and the quantity will decrease by 1. Id declined, the book will not be issued to the student.
This page shows all the requests made by admin and their status sorted according to the date (latest first)
The dashboard page contains all the books that have been uploaded till now and are availabe (quantity >0). Like the admin page, this page also has search functionality available. A student can create an issue request for or view any book.
This page shows all the requests made by the student and their status sorted according to the date (latest first)
