So Naquiyah Bharmal-Moiyadi had a GREAT idea where I can create maybe a shelf of all the books I’ve read and own, and display them in a web interface. This idea while talking to her (god bless her) morphed into building a 3D Bookshelf that can be panned around and book spines can be clicked to open the book to be readable. And me being the lackluster programmer I am, decided to make this my first proper project that I can put on my resume (that i wanted to be passionate about for so long). The following are some notes on the journey in building this thing.
27-07-2024
Started out thinking I’d use react for this, but instead chose svelte because I find it’s philosophy really cool, and more over I wanted to use d3js in some way or the for so long. So this