Panel — WebXR comic reader for Komga

Panel streams a self-hosted Komga comic library straight into a Meta Quest 3 headset. Put the headset on and it opens where you left off on the iPad; browse your whole library as a wall of floating covers; turn pages on the thumbstick. It runs in the Quest browser — no store, no native build, no sideload — and self-hosts as a single Docker container next to Komga.

Status: v0.2.0 — self-hostable and on Docker Hub. Single-user / family focused, young but real. See CHANGELOG.md.

Features

• Auto-resume — reopens your last book fresh from Komga on load, so progress read anywhere (e.g. the iPad) carries over with zero clicks. Read-progress syncs back on every page turn.
• A 3D library — browse the whole collection as an A–Z "Alphabet Shelf": letter stacks sized by how much you have under each, pick a letter to be surrounded by its series, drill into a series' issues, page through big sets. Plus a Recent mode (continue-reading + on-deck) and a flat 2D browser.
• A comfortable reader — the page composited crisp on a plane with a backing board + paper stack so it reads as a physical object; single-page and two-page spreads; grab-to-move, two-handed resize, stick locomotion, recenter.
• Comic-shop-pulp look — warm-black palette, one pulp-red accent, chunky display type, halftone and hard-offset "misregistration" shadows.

Self-hosting (Docker)

Panel ships as one container: the static app + a Caddy proxy that talks to your Komga with the API key injected server-side (so the browser never sees it).

docker run -d --name panel -p 8677:80 \
  -e KOMGA_URL="http://192.168.1.10:8080" \
  -e KOMGA_API_KEY="your-read-only-komga-key" \
  -e PANEL_PASSWORD="a-strong-password" \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  dervish/panelsxr:latest

Two things to get right:

1. WebXR needs HTTPS. A plain http://…:8677 loads the 2D page but the Quest won't enter VR — front Panel with a reverse proxy / tunnel (SWAG, Nginx Proxy Manager, Cloudflare Tunnel) so it's served over https://.
2. Gate it. The proxy injects your Komga key, so an ungated public Panel is an open proxy to your library. Panel is fail-closed: it won't serve /komga unless you set PANEL_PASSWORD (built-in login, cached one-time by the Quest) or explicitly PANEL_AUTH=none (LAN-only / gated upstream). Use a dedicated read-only Komga user's key to cap the blast radius.

Full guide, env reference, and an Unraid Community Applications template: deploy/unraid/.

Development

npm install
npm run dev          # http://localhost:5173 — desktop iteration
npm run dev:quest    # HTTPS on the LAN for a real headset (self-signed)
npm run build        # tsc --noEmit && vite build
npm test             # vitest — headset-independent logic

On localhost with no WebXR, @react-three/xr v6 auto-activates an emulated Quest 3 (IWER), so Enter VR gives a real emulated session on desktop. Set your Komga connection in .env.local (copy .env.example); the dev server proxies /komga/* and injects the key, same as the container.

Tech

Vite + React 19 + TypeScript · three.js · @react-three/fiber · @react-three/xr v6 (createXRStore, controller/hand input state) · @react-three/handle · drei · JSZip (dev-only .cbz). Container: multi-stage build → Caddy. Node 22.

License

MIT.