Reading

A Windows desktop app that browses MangaDex (and soon NovelFire) and reads chapters aloud with on-device AI.

This is Phase 1: browse + library only. Audio comes in Phase 3.

Develop

Prereqs: Node 22 LTS, pnpm 9+, Rust 1.79+, Visual Studio Build Tools 2022 with the C++ workload, Windows 10/11.

pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev

Tests

# Frontend
pnpm exec vitest run

# Rust
cd src-tauri ; cargo test ; cd ..

Build

pnpm tauri build

Output is at src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Project layout

See docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-09-manga-novel-reader-design.md for the full design and docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-09-phase-1-foundation.md for the Phase 1 implementation plan.