#MgaServer

• Author: Noah Pederson

• Email: pedersonnoah@gmail.com

• Description: A server that hosts cbz and cbr files.

###About MgaServer came from my need for a centralized comic server that maintains reading position and progress through a series. The name comes from "manga" (the japanese word for comic book) -> "mngaserver" -> mgaserver. Because it isn't only for manga, the name is pronounced "megaserver." The first version tried to parses file and directory names and was able to scrape MyAnimeList for some metadata and store it in a database. The current version (lite branch) uses YACReaderLibrary as a database manager and serves the data and comic files from that. There's more data than is actually defined in ComicStreamers API, but adding more shouldn't be a problem while still maintaining backwards compatibility.

So far I've gotten Astonishing Comic Reader for Android to work pretty well.

###Installation Prerequisites: NodeJS + npm, YACReaderLibrary and a comic database set up

###Setup

Step 1: Clone the repository. To do this, open up command prompt and run git https://github.com/chiefnoah/mgaserver.git

Step 2. Install the necessary dependencies. Again, from command prompt run npm install

Step 3. Finally, run the server by executing the www file in side the bin folder. To do this type node bin/www into command prompt and hit enter.

###Planned Features

• Standalone parsing and ComicVine + MyAnimeList scraping
• YACReader multiuser (possibly)
• YACReaderLibrary + YACReader iOS API backwards compatibility <- This is complex and undocumented. Probably not goint to prioritize
• Webpage configuration and management