MoringMark Archive

https://moringmark.grzegorzkoperwas.site/

An archive of The Owl House comics made by u/makmark and posted to the subreddit.

Made cause I wanted to read all the parts of Grom Factor in order.

Features:

Individual comics are merged into series
A sortable list of comics
OCR in alt text
Automatic update via scheduled jobs

It is just a static website built from json files, what more do you expect from it.

Technical stuff

I used this project to learn AWS.

The website is hosted by an s3, proxied by cloudfront.

Two ECS tasks (built by github actions) process reddit posts and store them in s3, simple stuff.

How to develop

Requirements:

A unixlike operating system
node and npm
python 3.12 and poetry

Instructions:

Clone the repo
Acquire reddit API secret and export it into env variable SECRET.
- Alternatively use the ./get_example_results_from_scraper.sh to download example data for frontend development
Go to ./scraper and launch poetry install to install scraper dependencies
Launch poetry run -m src to gather the data from reddit
- You can pass an env parameter COMIC_LIMIT to limit the amount of comics
Go to ./front and launch npm install
Run npm run dev to see the development version in your browser
Run npm run build to see the final result

There is also a docker-compose file, you could add some volumes to make it work locally or add references to two s3 buckets in BUCKET and DESTINATION env variables.