Lorenzi's Jisho is a web frontend for the JMdict Japanese-English dictionary project! It supports creating and sharing custom study lists with your searched words, and you can export them in an Anki-compatible format.

It is live at https://jisho.hlorenzi.com

I haven't chosen how to license this repository's code yet. Please only use it for personal reference.

To start:

• Use node version 16 (or greater).
• In all of common/, backend/, and frontend/, execute npm install.
• If you have MongoDB installed, in backend/, execute npm run db-build to download JMdict and build the database.

To work on the codebase, execute in parallel:

• In backend/, execute npm run dev to start the server in watch mode. You can pass arguments to select between a few options for internal services. Remember to pass as npm run dev -- --option.

  • For the database service:
    • --db-mongo Use MongoDB. This is the default.
    • --db-dummy Use a dummy interface that returns empty results.
  • For the authentication service:
    • --auth-dummy Use a dummy service which lets you log in with any user ID. This is the default.
    • --auth-lorenzi, --auth-lorenzi-dev Use Lorenzi's closed-source auth server. You probably won't have access to it, so use the dummy service.

• In frontend/, execute npm run dev to build and pack the frontend JavaScript files in watch mode.

• Finally, you can access the page through http://127.0.0.1.