Manga Server

Web application to serve manga collection from your computer over the network.

Note: This is NOT a CMS (Content Management System)

Requirements

Runtime

PHP version 8.1 or later with following extension enabled:
- gd
- zip

Development

composer
NodeJS
yarn (replacement for npm)
symfony-cli (optional)

How to run

Download zip file from the latest release page
Extract
Open .env file and change MANGA_ROOT_DIRECTORY value to your manga collection folder. Alternatively you can copy .env file into .env.local to prevent your value to be overwritten when you update the app later.

# Please change to something like MANGA_ROOT_DIRECTORY=/data/manga
MANGA_ROOT_DIRECTORY=/

Open terminal
Navigate to extracted directory
Run following command

php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 public/index.php

Open web browser and access to http://localhost:8000
If your computer is connected to local network, you can access it from other device (smartphone, tablet, or other computer) that connected to the same network by accessing to it's ip address e.g http://192.168.100.12:8000

Development

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/zackad/manga-server

Install dependencies

cd manga-server
composer install

yarn install

Start the server

php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 public/index.php

# if you have symfony cli installed, you can use this command to start
# development server
symfony server:start

Watch the frontend compilation

# Open another terminal session and run
yarn dev

OPTIONAL: If you have devenv setup on your machine, you can run devenv up to start all service required to start development.