TO Comix Press
I'm a small comics publisher; I just relaunched our comic reader site, with 1800+ pages of short comics from our last decade of publishing.
A node script audits all the page assets and exports a per-book json object with each page's blurhash, average color, dimensions, and so forth. It's all flatfiles, the site has no database at all. The comics reader should feel pretty snappy!
Give it a whirl and let me know if you spot any woes.
https://www.tocomix.com/
TO Comix Press
A proudly Canadian indie anthology press publishing comics celebrating upcoming creators and marginalized voices.
11 Replies
helpful-purple•5mo ago
Nice one!
are there free comics so I can try the reader?
genetic-orange•5mo ago
All of 'em are free!
helpful-purple•5mo ago
mobile layout on checkout is a bit bugged btw
genetic-orange•5mo ago
hmmm
I'll poke at it!
helpful-purple•5mo ago
lol that was not obvious to me 🤪
genetic-orange•5mo ago
helpful-purple•5mo ago
swipe gestures would be nice on mobile for paginating through the comic
genetic-orange•5mo ago
I can work on that messaging a bit! The homepage is extremely barebones at current, and still needs the mailing list, news feed, and so forth.
Can do!
I want to say that I appreciate your help in the start channels! It's been an enormous boost in getting the site ready.
helpful-purple•5mo ago
mobile UI/UX needs a bit more work probably , could not exit from the viewer other than going back somehow
comics are beautiful btw
genetic-orange•5mo ago
Yeah, it's a little too desktop-focussed at current. The mobile ui needs to be rebuilt from scratch
flat-fuchsia•5mo ago
really cool thanks for sharing !