New2Comics is a web application designed to make comic books accessible to first-time readers. By taking in user preferences across genres, characters, teams, and publishers, the app provides personalized comic recommendations with beginner-friendly overviews — no prior knowledge required. New2Comics removes the intimidation of getting into comics and lets users explore at their own pace.
FINAL APPLICATION SPECIFICATIONS
- Entities with full CRUD: Volume, User
- Relationships with full CRUD: preferredCharacter, preferredGenre, preferredPublisher, preferredTeam
- Other entities have partial CRUD
- User authentication is fully implemented: users can register and log in via the login page; a session token is returned on successful login and used to identify the current user throughout the application
- User registration validates for duplicate usernames and returns appropriate error responses
- Profile page: users can set their preferences (genre, publisher, character, team) which are then used to personalise search results and recommendations on the Browse and Home pages
- Browse page: search by genre, publisher, volume (comic series), character, or team; results are sorted by how closely they match the logged-in user's preferences. See VolumeRepository.java for the SQL query
- Home page: clicking a genre or universe (publisher) button leads to the Browse page with that term pre-entered in the search bar; recommendations are ordered by user preferences; popularity list is ordered by number of likes
- Volumes support like and save toggle functionality tied to the logged-in user
- About Us page included
- Data in data.sql is real comic book data with realistic popularity (numLikes) values
- Accessibility filter: users can switch the colour scheme to accommodate different visual needs; supported themes are Default, Dark, Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia, and Monochromacy
Default theme
Home page showing genre and publisher browsing cards under the default yellow colour scheme.
Monochromacy accessibility theme
Same home page rendered in greyscale for users with monochromacy colour blindness.