feat: add search by author along with book titles #127
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This also refactors the orderBy logic in searchBooks, since that started to become some delicious spaghetti
This adds a publish_year SQL column which we will fill out with values once. The frontend no longer needs to extract the publish year, since the backend does it
This sorts for books with most ratings first instead of sorting by id. This is done with sorting by most ratings first, and fuzzy matching is still used when no books match a query
hestro
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Nov 12, 2026
martakam
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The merge-base changed after approval.
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Along with searching for book titles using the main search bar, users may now also search for authors.
This PR builds upon #117, so it should be merged after that one.
Closes #99