Created to support the Muslim Women's Popular Fiction module run at the University of Birmingham.
The database is managed in Contentful, transformed into Schema.org models and then served through a custom JavaScript frontend.
To run locally, run make sync to download the database and transform it into a JSON file. Then make up to serve the application. There's no compilation or build step.
You'll need to create a .env file containing the Contentful space and API key.
I used the Schema.org architecture because I love structured data and I'm doing other stuff with it elsewhere. It also means the frontend application uses a consistent data structure: any changes to the Contentful model just need to be handled by the transformer.
I didn't use a JavaScript frontend because I didn't need to, and the bespoke version is much smaller than anything a frontend framework would spit out. To keep it feasible I'm also using quite a lot of modern language features, which comes at the cost of older browser support.
I used GitHub Actions because they're easy to set up when the repo's already here, but it's just an rsync job so the task runner is pretty inconsequential.