rmoscowitz / houston-book-link

Houston Hackathon 2017 Project [Winner!!]

Hi, I'm Robyn 🍵 👩🏻‍💻 🌻

I'm a Frontend Engineer, currently working on the design system at Handshake. Let's connect on LinkedIn.

houston-book-link's Issues

Expose AWS postgres instance and update default db properties

Expose the EC2 Postgres instance and have the postgres properties default to that as opposed to a local instance. This way contributors don't have to have a db dump to contribute anything to server-side development.

Fort Bend County Overdrive

Fort Bend County Libraries - Account Id #1317 - https://api.overdrive.com/v1/libraries/1317

Store and Display user search history

Store and display the user's search history as a sidebar in the application

Clean up and optimize data processing pipeline

Ideally we should be able to run the overdrive data import relatively frequently. It would be nice if this automatically renewed oauth tokens, and ran quickly without bringing down the database (which probably means doing some update logic instead of just dropping all tables and starting over).

Also I think we should probably either rewrite it in node, or rewrite the node parts in python, since it'll be annoying to update the data model right now.

About Page Improvements

Need to improve the layout of the About page main sections, plus the pictures at the bottom do not grid-break properly in tablet view.

Rosenberg Library (Galveston) Card

The Rosenberg Library in Galveston is a part of the Houston Area Digital Media Overdrive (same as Houston Public Library) catalog. http://rosenberg-library.org/e-library/e-books-downloads/

front-end clean up & refactor

• remove extra dependencies
• style/commenting
• google analytics
• directory structure (organize images, components)

Add availability features

I think since this is something that changes a lot, it make sense for the backend to act as a proxy to the Overdrive API

Incorporate Item Availability

https://developer.overdrive.com/apis/library-availability

Duplicate #11

Set up a proper build and deployment pipeline

We'll probably use Travis for this. I'm thinking all this needs to do is build a docker image from master, push it to docker hub, and ssh into the ec2 instance, pull, and run it.

Footer Text Color Contrast Non-Compliance

Make text darker or background lighter to achieve a compliant contrast ratio

Search Results

• if you search for the same thing twice, you get different results each time
• result order doesn't always make sense (i.e. match in subtitle is higher than match in actual title)

related thought: do we need pagination buttons?

Search UX Improvements

2 accessibility issues on home page (in the input element):

1. Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children

2. Form elements must have labels

Mobile Width Extends Beyond Device-Width

Search Bar Functionality Fixes

• bad things happen when no cards are selected
• clicking a row closes the results

Resources Page

1. Replace card pictures with higher-quality ones
2. Add more content
3. Improve overall UI/UX

IE compatibility issue

Need polyfill for Symbol (for all versions of IE).
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33828840/symbol-is-undefined-in-ie-after-using-babel

HISD student id (HPL)

Add a third "card" that represents an HISD student ID and searches Houston Public Library.

http://houstonlibrary.org/learn-explore/student-resources/learning-link-faqs

i18n Support & Tokenize messages

Pull in a library to tokenize all messages in the application, and add skeleton support for Spanish.