Magi

Magi is a minimalist and efficient manga indexer, organizer, and reader. It does NOT distribute copyrighted material, including posters, metadata, or any other content owned by original copyright holders. Magi is designed solely as a local application to manage your digital manga collection using common file formats like .cbz, .cbr, .zip, .rar, etc. Metadata and posters are fetched from publicly accessible APIs to enhance the user experience.

Additional Magi screenshots, can be found under /docs/images, we add example page screenshots as new features are added.

Due to the heavy compression of rar files, you will incur performance issues. So it is recommended to use traditional zip files when possible, due to their performance benefits for random reads and writes.

Magi builds to a single binary targeting: Linux, MacOS and Windows on the following architectures: amd64 and arm64. If additional platforms should be supported, then feel free to open a merge request to the pipelines so more people can enjoy Magi.

Binary releases are uploaded to the corresponding GitHub Release bound to a Git Tag generated through the GitHub workflow pipelines triggered by a merge to main, because of this we primarily work in the next branch, and merge to main when significant changes has been made for a tag bump to be reasonable. Due to Magi being in its early stages we also push unsafe directly to main branch, this is due to the project being in a early development stage where we have not yet determined everything.

If you wish to run Magi as a Docker container, then fear not! We build Docker container images for linux on amd64 and arm64, which can be found on Docker Hub and GHCR (Coming soon).

When running with native binaries it is heavily recommended to use something like shawl on Windows to run Magi as a service in the backgounrd, and registering a Unit on Linux.

Alternatively, run Magi in a container solution such as Kubernetes, Docker Desktop or Podman... the sky is the limit! Just make sure the underlying data is made available to the native or container environment.

We can be found on Discord for help, questions or just hanging around.

The full documentation, can be found here.

Technologies

Magi is built with the following technologies:

• GoLang - Programming Language
• Bolt - Key value store
• GoFiber - HTTP Server
• Templ - HTML Templating
• JavaScript libraries:
  • HTMX - Hypermedia
  • Lazysizes - Lazy image loading
• Tailwind CSS - CSS Framework
• Franken UI - Predefined Components
• Mangadex API - Metadata Scraping

Magi is compiled into a single binary file, making it highly portable and easy to run on any machine (meaning there is no "installer" it is by design portable). The build process integrates static views and assets into the final binary, allowing for fast builds and quick testing.

Mangadex APi was chosen over other solutions due to it allowing anonymous requests and not forcing the end-user to provide API tokens or keys. Alternatives like MAL was explored, and worked just fine, but was a pain for people to indiviually create their own API tokens etc...

Getting Started

To set up Magi for development, use the following command in the project directory:

air

This will start the application and provide you with logs indicating the status of the server and other components. You can then access the application at http://localhost:3000. Air also provides similar functionaly to something like next run dev where you get a proxy page that reloads for you, by opening the application on port :3001 then you will get proxy refresh's when you change the source code.

This provides a smoother developer experience instead of having to refresh the page every time you made a change.

To regenerate the Tailwind CSS theme with a new color scheme, run:

npx tailwindcss -i ./input.css -o ./assets/css/styles.css --minify

Make sure to update the theme in tailwind.config.js before running this command.

If you want to inspect the data stored in the Bolt key-value store, the bbolt CLI can be used. Alternatively a community Open-Source project named boltbrowser can be used, the project can be found here.

go install github.com/br0xen/boltbrowser@latest
boltbrowser ~/magi/magi.db

This will open a interactive console browser, here you can explore individual buckets, and the data contained within them.