This app aims to be a podcast-like experience for reading serial publications on the web.
Many excellent books and webcomics are being published openly on the web today. Most of those are published one chapter at a time. It's awesome that authors are self-publishing, but this format makes it hard to keep track of your progress.
The system will scan sources to create a table of contents for each book. It will notify subscribers, and keep track of their reading progress.
Neither Orbital Labs or Web Fiction are affiliated with any of the authors, books, art or content. We currently use art under the Fair Use doctrine, but prior to launch we will only use art we have a clear license to.
Please contact webfiction@orbit.al if we are using anything we don't have rights to and we'll clear it up
- Early Access Launch
Let's talk! Contact me, submit an issue or PR with your proposed changes, or pick up an issue already logged.
- Install RethinkDB 2
- Install Haskell with Stack
- Install Node and
npm install -g webpack
Run Database
rethinkdb
Haskell Server
# enter the REPL
$ stack ghci
# Run the application (Ctrl-C to exit)
Main> mainApi
# Reload your code
Main> :r
# Alternatively, build and run the executable
$ stack build
$ stack exec serials api
Front-end application
$ npm install
$ cs web && webpack
You'll probably want to make yourself an admin by hand. Once you've signed up, go to http://localhost:8080 and enter the following query into the Data Explorer
r.db('serials').table('users').update({admin: true})