Grimmory released today. I'll create the new package this weekend.
I don't disagree with anything you just said. Sounds like the grimmory team has a lot of clean up to do.
Yup, saw things happening real-time and got caught up in the destruction of the old discord server. A bit sad that it happened, but then again reading what the booklore author did & said, I'm pretty sure this change is for the better.
A lot of the previous contributors to Booklore are involved with Grimmory, so there is a real good chance that things will work out in the end.
Looks like the booklore author threw a fit and took the whole repo down, so this project is dead. https://github.com/grimmory-tools/grimmory looks to be the forked replacement. Once the official releasees start coming out of this repo I plan to create a new AUR package and orphan this one. This is why we can't have nice things....
Major change in v2.0.0. Booklore no longer requires a reverse proxy to work. The entire app (ui and api) will be hosted on port 8095. You can change this port by editing the _PORT var in the pkgbuild. If you already have a reverse proxy setup, you'll have to update it to not redirect api traffic to /api.
Booklore can now also use java-25-openjdk, so feel free to change your system's default java to that.