Shoten

A quiet search engine for books and audiobooks.

Originally built in 2020 with Svelte 3 + Carbon + a Heroku/FastAPI backend. Ported in 2026 to a single SvelteKit app that runs entirely on Cloudflare.

Stack

• SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 (runes)
• Tailwind CSS v4 (CSS-first config in src/app.css)
• bits-ui primitives, lucide-svelte icons, mode-watcher for dark mode
• Bun for install / scripts
• Cloudflare Pages for hosting, with the /api/* routes running as Workers via @sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare

Search is wired to Library Genesis mirrors directly from the edge. No separate backend service.

Develop

bun install
bun run dev          # http://localhost:5173
bun run check        # svelte-check + types

Deploy to Cloudflare Pages

bun run build
bunx wrangler pages deploy .svelte-kit/cloudflare

Or connect the GitHub repo on Cloudflare Pages and set:

• Build command: bun run build
• Build output: .svelte-kit/cloudflare
• Compatibility flags: nodejs_compat

Project layout

src/
  app.css                  Tailwind v4 + theme tokens
  app.html                 dark-mode FOUC guard
  lib/
    types.ts               shared Book / SearchResponse types
    server/libgen.ts       libgen mirror search (runs at the edge)
  routes/
    +layout.svelte         ModeWatcher
    +page.svelte           search UI
    api/search/+server.ts  JSON search endpoint
legacy/                    archived Svelte 3 / Carbon / Routify version

License

CC0-1.0 — public domain.