Digital Library

Technology Stack and Features

• FastAPI for the Python backend API.
• Jinja for dynamically generating HTML pages with embedded data and logic (server-side rendering).
• Elasticsearch for semantic search.
• SQLAlchemy for the Python SQL database interactions.
• Pydantic, used by FastAPI, for the data validation and settings management.
• PostgreSQL as the SQL database.

How to start the service

# Enter into the project directory
cd digital-library-code

# To create a virtual environment, you can use the venv module that comes with Python
python -m venv .venv

# Activate the new virtual environment
# - On Windows PowerShell, run
.venv\Scripts\activate
# - On Unix or MacOs, run
source .venv/bin/activate
# Upgrade pip
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

# Install packages from requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the service
fastapi dev main.py

Project description

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