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by lingdocs 1423 days ago
This is really cool. Glad to see people are wanting and working for better dictionaries. I also had a similar thoughts while trying to create a Pashto dictionary a few years ago. It needs to be offline, fuzzy-search as you type, etc. But sooo many dictionaries out there work in more clumsy ways. I decided to build a PWA one from scratch using React and a LokiJS in-memory database. Later on I added a verb conjugation and phrase generation engine (big thanks to phrase structure analysis and TypeScript!)

You can see a little demo of it here - I'm planning on open sourcing the core soon.

Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMpSpaMMdp4

Dictionary https://dictionary.lingdocs.com