Web UI for Xapers — a personal journal article management system.

Motivation

Sometimes I like to read papers on my tablet while lying on coach.

Features:

• Access your papers database on any device in local network
• Search database
• Sort (desc/asc) by ID, Year, Relevance
• Load document via browser
• Edit bibtex entry and tags
• Tag autocompletion

Wishlist

• Limit via limit:N keyword or similar
• Smart autocompletion
• Uploading new articles with doi/arXiv ID detection
• Better UI

Python dependencies

1. sudo apt install xapers (Debian-based distros) or equivalent
2. pip install flask eventlet argparse

Dev server

In this mode requests to /api endpoint are proxied to python web server on localhost:5000. Source code changes are compiled on the fly and UI is hot module reloaded.

# Run webpack dev server and python server
$ cd client/ && yarn install && yarn start

Production

# Build client JS/CSS/HTML files in client/dist/
$ cd client/ && yarn install && yarn build
# Run server
$ ../server/server.py

License

MIT