Search and characterization of book/chapter/verse from sacred texts of various religions.
This app was originally written in PHP, but was migrated to Angular/Typescript on the frontend and NestJs/Typescript on the backend. The original PHP source was inadvertently lost when migrating from BitBucket to GitHub.
The backend database schema attempts to generically organize segments of scriptural and other ancient works. The sources of the data are varied: some were scavenged from the Gutenberg project and other sites, while others were taken from other databases. Every attempt was made to ensure that only public domain data was used. If any non-public data exists in the database, it is completely unintentional.
Religion --+
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Tome --+
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Book --+
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Chapter --+
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Verse
The backend/database/loads directory contains some of the code
used to load the database. It looks as though some of the data
loading may have been lost. It also looks as though some items were
not yet loaded, including the Norse, Hindu,
and Analects of Confucius texts. There are PHP
scripts there that may or may not work. There is also a set
of Bible inconsistencies that was apparently in progress.
The sacredtextsearch application has a frontend user interface supported by a
backend to retrieve and return information stored in a MySQL database.
The frontend and backend servers may run on the same or different machines, and the MySQL database can likewise be hosted on the same machine, on a separate server, or as a data service like Amazon's RDS. RDS is recommended for production use due for its security and backup options.
The common programming language for both ends is Typescript, a typed abstraction of JavaScript.
The backend/src/shared directory contains code shared by both ends of the app.
Node requires all sources to be within the same src tree, while Angular does not.
Otherwise, it would have been placed at a level between them.
Initially, the database entities structures in Typescript were used on both ends, to reduce code duplication. That is not recommended as a good practice, but I favored it anyway. It turned out that the recommendation was at least practical, since the Angular frontend reached a point where it would no longer compile based on TypeOrm issues. The upshot is that I had to duplicate the entities in the backend/src/shared/entity-interfaces files. I continue to dislike the need for that practice, but I had to give up on it.