Arutha.lk Sinhala Dictionary Website and Apps

Uses Vue3, Vite, Tailwind CSS for the front end and Web Server written in Go for the bank end. Uses Sqlite db to hold the dictionary entries.

Project Setup

• npm install install dependencies
• node populate-sqlite.mjs for (re)creating the db from the dictionary files in dict-input folder

Compile and Hot-Reload for Development

1. npm run dev to start dev frontend server on port 5173
2. go build and then start backend server ./server -no-open -root-dir=.. to handle backend sqlite requests

Production Website

1. npm run build to generate dist folder with minified frontend files
2. Compile the arutha_lk_linux_intel go binary and copy it with the dist and server-data folders to the cloud droplet
3. Follow the instructions in the arutha_lk.service file to register a systemctl service and start it
4. The server runs on port 3000

Building the Apps

cd server
./build-all.sh # build the go binaries for all platforms
./create-zips.sh # create zip files with the binary and dist/server-data folder for windows/linux
./sign-notorize.sh # codesign and notorize a dmg file for macos

Then upload the resulting files to this Github repo's releases