blurbsy

This project uses a Gatsby front end and an Airtable backend. Airtable is maybe not the most sustainable backend? But it works right now & it's easy to use. Demo version: https://blurbsy.netlify.com

making this work

The gatsby-config.js file expects there to be a .env.production and .env.development file. Those files should look like this:

GATSBY_AIRTABLE_APIKEY=[whatever the Airtable API key is]
GATSBY_AIRTABLE_BASEID=[whatever the Airtable BaseID is]

The Airtable I'm using right now has three tables: one for authors, one for books, and one for blurbs.

TODO:

• figure out a way to get this information automatically?
• on build, pull in book information from the LibraryThing API ( https://www.librarything.com/services/ )? Not sure how good that data is aside from covers.
• use react-graph-viz to visualize this data.

Search:

• https://github.com/humanseelabs/gatsby-plugin-lunr
  • https://medium.com/humanseelabs/gatsby-v2-with-a-multi-language-search-plugin-ffc5e04f73bc
  • https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-plugin-lunr/
  • https://assortment.io/posts/gatsby-site-search-lunr-js