Korean Dictionary With Nextjs and React Native
This app was created as a way to experiment with some modern front end technologies that support the NextJS and React Native stack, while at the same time, providing a tool which i could use to learn Korean.
It’s a simple dictionary lookup which is quick and to-the-point. The current dicitonary service provided by Naver is great but it often has a lot more information than i need as a Korean learner. Not to mention, its mobile app is just the embedded web app which is clunky and slow.
Check out the live version of the mobile app here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hanbyte/id6471039631
The backend and web app is a NextJS app hosted on vercel, and the mobile app hooks into this backend using TRPC. This stack was based on the T3 turbo stack in this repository:
It was a great starting point for creating an end-to-end typesafe application where i could learn about some smart ways to structure projects to faciliate code sharing.
The app is basic at this stage, no doubt about that. But this is a work in progress which i hope to add more capabilities as time goes on.
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UX Improvements
In progress
Make it less ugly
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