rufatZZ / woca

Woca is kindaaaa digital vocabulary, powered by Merriam-Webster API

Woca

Woca is a API-based, React/Node/Express/MongoDB powered vocabulary app.

• Search some words from Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• See your search history
• Save your words to MongoDB via Express/Mongoose
• Add some custom listi for your word collections

Tech

Woca uses API for back-end from Merriam-Webster API

Woca uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• ReactJS - JavaScript library for building user interfaces!
• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework [@tjholowaychuk]
• mongoose - elegant mongodb object modeling for node.js
• MongoDB - document database with the scalability and flexibility
• styled-components - CSS-in-JS library
• react-helmet - A document head manager for React

And of course woca itself is open source with a public repository on GitHub.

Installation

Woca requires Node.js v8+ and MongoDB v4+ to run.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

$ cd woca
$ npm install -d
$ npm run start

First Tab (run server side):

$ node server/app.js

Second Tab (run client side):

$ npm run start

Building for source

For production release:

$ npm run build

License

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the MIT License.