goiodi

GOIODI

GOIODI is an open-source responsive collaborative dictionary web application made with the Ionic framework, AngularJS, the Golang language and based on a MongoDB NoSQL database. The main advantages of GOIODI:

• Open source
• Has a responsive design and can be used on mobile devices (an application will be created for Android)
• Collaborative (social dictionary for small and big communities)
• Can be translated to several languages (only French and English are supported for the moment)

Current version

1.2

Used technologies

GOIODI is powererd with a number of open source projects:

• [Ionic] - An HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework.
• [AngularJS] - An HTML/JavaScript MVW Framework.
• [Golang] - A modern programming language.
• [MongoDB] - A NoSQL database.
• [Angular-Translate] - An AngularJS translation library.

And of course GOIODI itself is open source with an MIT license, you can use it for commercial/non-commercial products for free.

Installation

Download latest package lists:

sudo apt-get update

Install Golang 1.6 (https://golang.org/doc/install?download=go1.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz)

Clone the project repository or download the ZIP file from this page then build the Golang server:

go build

Install and run MongoDB 3.2 (https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/installation/)

sudo service mongod start

If you want to populate the database, use the provided script in the project's root directory.

./populateDB_TLS

Running the HTTP server

You need to generate TLS certificates in the project repository's root directory (the certificate files must be placed under /opt):

go run $GOROOT/src/crypto/tls/generate_cert.go --host="localhost"

or

go run /usr/lib/go/src/pkg/crypto/tls/generate_cert.go --host="localhost"

Then, run the back-end server in secure mode:

sudo ./goiodi

Todos

• Add word vocal search
• Add word audio reading
• Add user related features:
  • Add user personal page
  • Add word ranking (with a 5 star system for example)
  • Add word consultation statistics
  • Add user activity details
  • Add "Word of the day" feature to make the user learn new words

License

MIT