Library Book System

Book management system for the terminal.

About

This application provides a terminal interface with which to manage a library book system. The application reads books from a database file (in CSV format), allowing the user to add to the database or print all of the current books contained within it.

Development Usage

Before running the application, ensure that you've followed the setup procedure.

Setup

After cloning this repository, make sure to initialise the application:

npm i

Note that this application requires NodeJS 18+.

Execution

There are a number of ways of executing this program. The first being to simply build it and run it:

npm run build
node ./dist/index.js path_to_file.csv

You can also run it using npm start:

npm start -- path_to_file.csv

The file path may be relative or absolute.

Note that the project comes with a sample database, sample.db.csv, so you can use that to quickly test: npm start -- ./sample.db.csv.

Tests

You can run the unit tests by simply calling npm test. The tests execute all current specs and checks to see that the coverage is still at an acceptable amount.

Production Usage

This application can also be run directly by invoking npx:

npx @perrymitchell/book-system path_to_file.csv

New databases can be created by simply referring to a file that doesn't exist yet:

npx @perrymitchell/book-system ./no-file-yet.csv

Once saved, the new database will be created at the provided path.