Now that I have the blog set up, I can start working on my latest project idea: a board game inventory web app that I can use to help inventory my family’s board game library. This project is loosly inspired by the post over at techtrek.io, but it is designed to be a web based project.
The first task is to allow barcode scanning so that we can easily build the list of games easily without typing in every single game’s name. The plan is to accomplish this with ngx-scanner. Second, these barcodes need to be decoded, so the plan is to use upcitemdb to decode new barcodes into products, and then store them locally so that we don’t have to run up against the API limit. Third, I would like to retrive more information about the game from Board Game Geek so that we can have play information stored.