Trying Out For Other Library

[saulshanabrook]

Hey!

I'm working with @saracoderbrown to start experimenting with this app for a possible lending library in western mass.

I was taking a look at the codebase, and was looking for the functionality that served the API json response for all the things. I see it's making a call to a site hosted on glitch?

Probably just missing something obvious here, but would appreciate any pointers on where to look! I also saw the images seem to be hosted on airtable?

Are you using airtable as the backend?

Thanks!

[saracoderbrown]

Hey! Just wanted to check in about this, still interested in using this platform for another library and wondering how you did it. Thanks!

[dillonfagan]

Hi @saracoderbrown, I sent an email a while back, but maybe it went to spam (my emails tend to do that LOL). But I'm glad someone is finding this project useful!

To answer your questions, @saulshanabrook:

We have a second repository for the REST API which serves the frontend (things-api). And you got it, we are running that on Glitch right now.

The backend is a custom Airtable base, which we would have to replicate for your library so that it's compatible with the API.

As the software stands, it is not multi-tenant. So if you guys wanted to use this for yourselves, you would need to fork it and customize all of the existing code to match your branding and unique needs. I will be honest, the code needs a lot of work and I don't want to see you guys get tightly coupled to this code. I'd be happy to set up a meeting with you all to discuss further development of the app.