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Learn Japanese through subtitles, featuring a full dictionary using JMdict Japanese-English dictionary project!

Upload any video and .srt (subtitles file) and we break down your video into clips to quiz you on Vocabulary, Meaning and Pronunciation.

Local Development

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.

• 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.

Shortcut to run everything is in .vscode/tasks.json - Use Ctrl+Shift+P and type Tasks: Run Task and select Run All.