@smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications
Howdy! I've just written a blog post about this, and I figured I would share it here: https://smoores.dev/post/announcing_smoores_epub/. As I've been working on Storyteller[1], I've been developing a library for working with EPUB files, since that's a large amount of the work that Storyteller does. After a friend asked for advice on creating EPUB books in Node.js, I decided to publish Storyteller's EPUB library as a standalone NPM package. I really love the EPUB spec, and I think the Node.js developer community deserves an actively maintained library for working with…
@smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications launched on December 13, 2024 with 156 votes, #279 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
In plain words
@smoores/epub is a JavaScript library for reading and writing EPUB files in Node.js. Designed for developers who need to work with digital publications programmatically, it provides tools for handling the EPUB format without requiring external dependencies. The library was extracted from Storyteller, a larger project that works extensively with EPUB files, and is actively maintained for the JavaScript developer community.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Howdy! I've just written a blog post about this, and I figured I would share it here: https://smoores.dev/post/announcing_smoores_epub/. As I've been working on Storyteller[1], I've been developing a library for working with EPUB files, since that's a large amount of the work that Storyteller…
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