It's an electronjs app to read manga on sites like mangadex.org using bigger cache.
Images usually end up as big files. If we take 1 chapter of 25 pages and say each page is 200Kb total then total size can go up to 5 Mb. Now most modern browsers are chromium based. Chromium has hardcoded cache limit of 2Gb and it will be shared across everything that is downloaded according to cache rules including css, js, images, audio, video, etc. Also Chrome uses way more RAM then it should.
To each BrowserView attached a NetworkWatcher. NetworkWatcher will observe network activity according to rules specified by MangaSite class or it's children. This includes rules to cache and emit events on both Request and Response.
Caching is roughly made same as private cache described on MDN. The only header that yet to be taking care of is Vary. Cache is very aggressive and will go for most cases except those that will have Cache-Control: no-store or Set-Cookie headers. Before each request is made NetworkWatcher will try to check if such request was made before and even revalidate it. Upon getting Response it will store cached response if needed.
Response info is stored in sqlite db. As of now it contains url, path, info (headers, expired time, etc) and stored flag.
Stored flag generally means if you should resolve path based on cache folder (false) or manga folder (true).
If file is not stored it's name would be equal to primary key.
As of now some bonus features for mangadex site are:
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Manga library. Go to title manga page, e.g. Mashle. You will see Add at the top right corner.
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Auto checking updates for manga in library.
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Adding
--noshowflag will start app in tray. -
Savetoggle in library. Will move files fromcachefolder tomangafolder.
npm install
npm run build
# or to run dev version
npm run dev-
Currently tested and works on win10
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UI isn't finished so, to completely exit app use "exit" inside tray context menu.
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Paths to
cache\manga\sqlitedb can be set withconfig.json. Seemain.js.