The UI is inspired by Tachiyomi (Please use that if you want to read manga on mobile devices).

Nonbiri

Nonbiri is a self-hosted back-end and front-end for MangaDex. Just something I made for myself because MangaDex's new UI is bloated piece of hot garbage. The back-end itself is lightweight because of Go's garbage collector (< 100MB).

Features

Online/offline read and browse MangaDex
History tracker and scheduled updates
Chapters and covers are automatically downloaded/cached forever
Real-time synchronization between tabs/browsers and computers
Long strip, right-to-left and left-to-right reading modes
Customizable keyboard shortcuts for navigating between pages and chapters

Library and history are stored locally, Nonbiri will not push follows and reading history to MangaDex for obvious reasons.

Installation

Pre-built binaries are available on releases page.

Usage

Run nonbiri, then open localhost:42071 on your web browser.

Compiling

Requirements:

Go 1.18+
GCC
Node.js
Yarn

The back-end is written in Go 1.18 Beta 1 which uses generics. Please refer to the official download page on how to download or use it.

Building

If you are on linux, execute the following command instead:

make build build-view

All output files will be inside the bin directory.

Building the back-end

To build the back-end, execute the following command:

go build

Note that you need Go 1.18+ to be able to compile the binary.

Building the front-end

To build the front-end, execute the following command inside the view directory:

yarn && yarn prod

The output files will be inside the bin directory.

Local network sharing

Knowledge about networking is required.

If you are running the back-end on linux, simply add the port which used by the back-end into the firewall. To do so, execute the following command:

ufw allow 42071

Then you will be able to access the front-end through your local IP address, e.g., 192.168.x.x:42071.

To find out about your local IP address, execute the following command:

ifconfig | grep netmask

# Example output
inet 192.168.x.x # local IP address
inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0

License

Nonbiri is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Disclaimer

The developer of this application does not have any affiliation with the content providers available.

Kukulhubismv/nonbiri