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A self-hosted alternative to FlipbookPDF: upload a PDF, get a realistic page-turning viewer you can share as a link or embed on your own site — backed by your own Cloudflare R2 storage instead of a monthly subscription.

Features

• Upload PDFs, rendered client-side into a page-flip viewer (pdf.js + react-pageflip)
• Shareable public link (/f/<slug>) and embeddable <iframe> snippet (/embed/<slug>)
• Password-protect any flipbook
• Per-flipbook download/print toggles and toolbar/background branding
• View analytics (total views, last-30-days chart)
• Small-team accounts: an admin adds teammates by email + password; everyone shares one flipbook library

Stack

Next.js (App Router) · NextAuth (Credentials) · Drizzle ORM over Cloudflare D1 (via its HTTP API) · Cloudflare R2 (S3-compatible) for storage.

Getting started

See SETUP.md for the full walkthrough (Cloudflare R2 + D1 setup, env vars, first admin account). Short version:

cp .env.example .env      # fill in Cloudflare R2 + D1 + auth values
npm install
npm run db:push
npm run seed:user -- [email protected] "a-strong-password" "Your Name" admin
npm run dev

Scripts

• npm run dev / npm run build / npm run start
• npm run db:generate / npm run db:push — Drizzle migrations against D1
• npm run db:studio — browse the D1 database
• npm run seed:user -- <email> <password> <name> [admin|member] — create a login