v0.0.3-alpha

The third release of the bookstore project. This is still an alpha version and under development. This release is not for production use.

Core features

Back-end

Introduce users & roles

• Support for users with different roles

  • Users have different views, activities and access permissions depending on their roles

• REST API is accessible only to admin users

Book management

• Decide whether to publish a book or not

  • Published books are visible to everyone

  • Unpublished books are visible, accessible and editable only for those with proper authority such as admins & sales personnel

  • Only admins can delete books

Other improvements

• Support for additional properties files

• Improved/More centralized management for back-end value configurations

• Various functionality tweaks

• More un-hardcoded message strings

Front-end

• Book list is no longer accessible without signing in

• Added login form with related activities

• Development mode: added development related elements

• Added footer content