About

+ I started building this site mainly to learn Quarkus and Kubernetes. + Nonetheless, I have found it useful, specially the API, for my language learning purposes. + As such, I will continue to develop and maintain it for the foreseeable future. +

+ You can use the search bar to get translations and definitions for words. For now, we only + support French to English translations, but support for other languages is planned for the + near future. +

+ If you think you can make this site better, or if you want a new language to be added, + see the contributing section. +

Contributing

+ Suggestions, requests and ideas +

+ If you have a suggestion or idea that could make this website better, or if you want to request a new language + to be + added, please feel free to send me an email at goussasalexander@gmail.com. +

Adding a new language

+ You can send me a patch implementing support for your language. Take a look at the codebase. + I think everything is pretty self-explanatory. You should create a new implementation of the + WordDefinitionRepository and WordTranslationRepository interfaces and add it to the + corresponding composite classes. +

+ The patches should be sent over email with the subject [larousseapi] PATCH: description +

+ For alignment on anything, you can contact me over email or message me on LinkedIn. I will gladly discuss the + API's design and other technical stuff in a call or text. +

Technical stack

+ The API uses Quarkus REST for the API and the Qute template engine for the frontend. Everything is deployed + on k8s and instrumented for both frontend and backend metrics with Umami and OTEL respectively. Once you + clone the repository, you should be able to run it in dev mode with quarkus dev. +

+ There are no external databases or else needed, for now. I plan to add a caching layer in the future. +