WIP: Feat/book series info

[glorenzen]

I've seen a number of requests for enhancements to Series pages, so I'm working on some simple changes, starting first with showing a Series description. I've added a new context menu item on the series pages, which displays a modal for editing the series, but so far it's just the UI.

Is there an API endpoint for updating a series? I've been looking, and have found the routes for getting all series in a library or a specific series in a library, but nothing for updating.

Related issues:
#711 #3806

[advplyr]

The main reason the series page doesn't already exist is because I couldn't think of a good UI for it.

Can you add some screenshots of what you are thinking it would look like?

[glorenzen]

I was thinking of just adding the information to the existing series pages. Is there a reason we can't do that? My thought was the description and other metadata can go above the items in the series as text blocks.

I don't have any screenshots of what that would look like, but I do have screenshots of the new Edit Series option and the modal.

[advplyr]

That was the part I couldn't get to look right. Just adding the description above the list of books. I tried it a while back and it looked strange and couldn't think of a good design for it.

[glorenzen]

This layout is pretty simple, but I was just thinking it could look something like this:

We could also add an option where users can choose whether the metadata is displayed or not.

[glorenzen]

@advplyr Also, not sure if you saw my note earlier, but are there API endpoints for Series? I couldn't find any endpoints for updating Series.

[advplyr]

There isn't series endpoints yet.

I think this should be built similar to the authors page but use the lazy bookshelf instead of the horizontal scrolling cards. I could have the sort/filter options above the bookshelf like is done for podcast episodes.