📚 Archive - A University Library Management System

A production-grade, scalable, and secure University Library Management System designed for real-world deployment. This system handles everything from book inventory and user management to secure file uploads, automated workflows, and performance optimizations.

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🚀 Features

• 📖 Robust Book Management
  CRUD operations for books, categories, authors, genres, and more.

• 👨‍🏫 User Roles & Permissions
  Admins, librarians, and students with role-based access control.

• 🌐 Advanced Search & Filters
  Full-text and relational search with pagination and dynamic filtering.

• 📥 Media Uploads
  Upload PDFs, eBooks, images using secure cloud storage (e.g., AWS S3 or Cloudinary).

• ⚡️ Optimizations & Caching
  Redis caching for queries, image optimization, and performance tuning.

• 🔐 Security & Rate Limiting
  Helmet, CORS, express-rate-limit, and DDoS protection middleware.

• 📩 Custom Notifications & Workflows
  Email and in-app notifications for due dates, new arrivals, and more.

• 🧠 Analytics & Logging
  Real-time stats on book checkouts, active users, system health (with tools like Prometheus/Grafana or LogRocket/Sentry).

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🛠 Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
Frontend	React / Next.js (TypeScript, TailwindCSS)
Backend	Node.js / Express / NestJS
Database	PostgreSQL / MongoDB
Caching	Redis
Storage	AWS S3 / Cloudinary
Auth	JWT / OAuth / Role-Based Access
Security	Helmet, Rate Limiting, DDoS Middleware
DevOps	Docker, Nginx, CI/CD with GitHub Actions
Monitoring	Prometheus / Grafana / Sentry

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🧪 Setup Locally

git clone https://github.com/GitDaksh/archive.git
cd archive
cp .env.example .env
npm install
npm run dev

Set up your .env with the following:

DATABASE_URL=your_database_url
REDIS_URL=your_redis_url
CLOUDINARY_KEY=your_key
JWT_SECRET=super_secure_secret

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🧰 Scripts

Script	Description
npm run dev	Run in development mode
npm run build	Build for production
npm run lint	Lint codebase
npm run test	Run unit/integration tests

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📌 Roadmap

• Core book/user management
• Rate limiting and security policies
• Media uploads + storage integration
• Redis-based caching layer
• Real-time overdue alerts via email/SMS
• Admin dashboard for analytics
• PWA Support + Offline Mode

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🧠 Architecture Overview

📁 /src
├── /api             # Express/NestJS API routes
├── /controllers     # Core logic controllers
├── /services        # DB interaction & business logic
├── /middleware      # Auth, rate limiting, DDoS
├── /utils           # Helpers, validators, error handling
├── /models          # DB Models/Entities (Prisma/Mongoose/Sequelize)
├── /config          # Environment config and constants

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🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repo
2. Create your branch: git checkout -b feature/feature-name
3. Commit your changes: git commit -m 'feat: add new feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin feature/feature-name
5. Submit a pull request

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🛡 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

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🧑‍💻 Maintainer

Daksh Pushpad
Feel free to connect or reach out for contributions, issues, or collaboration ideas.