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A huge collection of free books for developers

DevFreeBooks

This is the repository of the site https://devfreebooks.github.io to submit ebook links.

How to add books?

Before start it, all books you add must be freeware and for web developers

First of all you need to fork this repository.

With this project in your hands, edit the /public/[platform-folder]/_data.json and add your books respecting these parameters:

"index": {
  "name": "platform_name", // lower case and underscored
  "subtitle": "Platform name",
  "about": "Platform description",
  "site": "url of the official platform site",
  "image": "platform-logo.jpg", // Platform image is required
  "books": [
    {
      "title": "Book title",
      "description": "Book description",
      "author": "Author name or Publisher name",
      "pages": 100, // Number of pages
      "year": 2014, // Publish year
      "image": "cover.jpg", // Book cover image (optional)
      "lang": "EN", // book language. Ex.: EN, PT-BR, ES
      "publish": true, // Publish to devfreebooks site
      "url": "book's url to download",
      "published_at": "20150202" // Current publish date in format YYYYMMDD
    }
  ]
},

Obs.: All image must be an jpeg/jpg with 350x195 size. If you don't add an books.image attribute the default category image will replace it.

Look this example (public/nodejs/_data.json):

{
  "index": {
    "name": "nodejs",
    "subtitle": "Node.js",
    "about": "Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.",
    "site": "http://nodejs.org",
    "image": "nodejs.png",
    "books": [
      {
        "title": "Node.js Succinctly",
        "description": "Use Node.js to create faster network and server-side applications on any scale, improve your existing database applications, or create web apps with JSON data.",
        "author": "Agus Kurniawan",
        "pages": 201,
        "year": 2014,
        "image": "nodejs-succinctly.jpg",
        "lang": "EN",
        "publish": true,
        "url": "http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/nodejs",
        "published_at": "20150202"
      }
    ]
  }
}

If you wanna add a new platform (programming language or framework), first you need to add it into global.platforms attribute in the file harp.json:

{
  "globals": {
    "title": "DevFreeBooks",
    "description": "A huge collection of free books for devs",
    "name": "Caio Ribeiro Pereira",
    "email": "[e-mail]",
    "platforms": ["nodejs", "meteor", "go", "ruby"] // Just add here a new platform
  }
}

Development mode

To run this project in development mode, you need have Node.js and Grunt installed.

To install Node.js, just follow this wiki rules

To install Grunt, just run the command below:

npm install grunt-cli -g

To get and run this project:

git clone [e-mail]:devfreebooks/devfreebooks.github.io.git
cd devfreebooks
grunt serve

And access in your browser the url: http://localhost:3000.

Author

Caio Ribeiro Pereira - @crp_underground

License

MIT - http://caio-ribeiro-pereira.mit-license.org