This is a REST api to manage a library. The core functionality is to enable registered users to reserve books. The app also provides an admin layer, which enables admins to manage users, books and reservations.

After successfully registering an account and logging in users can:

• search for books by book title and author.
• reserve up to 5 books (user can reserve a book for 30 days)
• change email address and password.
• view their reservations and deadlines until which books must be returned.
• prolong book reservations (each book reservation can be prolonged only once, for a duration of 30 days)

admins can:

• view all users, user details, delete a user, change user email address.
• add a new book, update, delete a book, admins can also additionaly search for books by book id.
• reserve a book for a user, cancel book reservation
• search for reservations by status, books and users.

• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• Marshmallow
• Pytest

• User authentication is implemented using JWT (access token: 15 min., refresh token: 30 days.)
• User password is hashed using Bcrypt.
• Permissions are handled using roles: Admin, User. User is the default role, admins are currently created using a CLI command (source: link)