What is Plotmap?

Plotmap is a web application which allows you to explore places from books on a map.

What are the (future) features of Plotmap?

Plotmap supports (or plans to support) the following features:

• Books
  • Adding books by using an external API
  • Adding locations by using an external Map provider
  • Exploring added books and plot locations
• Users
  • Creating and managing accounts
  • Different user roles

Running the application

There are two options for now.

Running the application all-in-one

The easiest option is changing to the backend folder and running ./gradlew bootRun. The application will be accessible at localhost (port 8080).

There is also the possibility of a quicker build (which doesn't run frontend tests, linting and doesn't generate a frontend production build) by running ./gradlew bootRun -PdevFrontend.

Running separate backend and frontend instances

There is the option of running the backend and frontend separately.

The backend should be run with ./gradlew bootRun -PskipFrontend. It will be accessible at localhost (port 8080).

The frontend should be run by changing into the frontend folder and running npm run start:proxy. This will proxy all API requests to port 8080. The frontend will be accessible at localhost (port 4200).

Is the application deployed in production anywhere?

This repository is a playground for building a full-stack application and exploring different ideas, programming languages, frameworks, libraries etc.

It probably doesn't make sense to have a real deployment because the myriad of different book-related web sites out there (like Goodreads) would be able to implement it much better.

The ideas, concepts and code, on the other hand, is the real treasure and is probably worth exploring. 😄