v0.0.2-alpha

The second release of the bookstore project. This is still an alpha version and under heavy development. This release is not for production use.

Core features

Back-end

• Improved security: introduce randomly generated hash IDs for each book

  • Books can no longer be publicly enumerated from the database by their direct predictable IDs

• REST API support

  • Direct API access

    • Books, categories and authors can be retrieved via their direct IDs

  • Add, delete, update and retrieve books, categories and authors in JSON format

    • Support for adding and updating books with nested JSON data

    • Support for partial JSON updates

• Public JSON book data

  • Pre-filtered JSON data for public reading

Front-end

• Implemented buttons to retrieve publicly accessible JSON data

• REST API reference help page to help in direct API usage

• Book add & update pages

  • Author no longer takes full name. Instead, first and last name fields are used

  • Author and category can be left undefined and updated later