MolViewStories

A framework for building beautiful molecular stories.

Online at https://molstar.org/mol-view-stories.

When using MolViewStories, please cite:

Terézia Slanináková, Zachary Charlop‐Powers, Viktoriia Doshchenko, Alexander S Rose, Adam Midlik, Anna Sekuła, Neli Fonseca, Kyle L Morris, Stephen K Burley, Sameer Velankar, Jennifer Fleming, Brinda Vallat, Ludovic Autin, David Sehnal: MolViewStories: Interactive molecular storytelling, Protein Science, 2026; https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.70540.

Local Development (Quick Start)

Requirements

• Node.js 20+ (Corepack recommended) for the web app
• Docker (with Docker Compose) for hosting backend locally
• Deno for CLI

Frontend-only Setup

pnpm i
pnpm dev:web

Frontend + Backend Setup

./setup-local-dev.sh

What the script does:

• Installs/activates pnpm via Corepack
• Creates .env from env.example
• Installs dependencies and builds the project
• Starts the API and MinIO via Docker Compose

Access

• Web App: http://localhost:3000
• API: http://localhost:5000
• MinIO Console: http://localhost:9001 (minioadmin/minioadmin)