tipitaka.app - Chatta Sangayana Tipitaka on Github

Building the website

npm run build will build the webpack-bundle.js which would be referenced by the index.html

npx webpack on the misc/convert folder will build the converter tool

Bulding Apps for Windows, Mac and Linux

How to make an executable from the server

Windows

rm tipitaka-app.exe; npx pkg -t win --output tipitaka-app.exe tipitaka-app.js for 32 bit windows use win-x86

Mac

npx pkg -t macos --output tipitaka-app-mac tipitaka-app.js

Linux

For linux need to build it on a linux/ubuntu machine

npx pkg -t linux --output tipitaka-app-linux tipitaka-app.js

Run locally for debugging

node tipitaka-app.js

Pre-built Node binaries

These need to be placed in the same diretory of the exe created above

get a copy of the required pre built native modules - e.g. sqlite3

./node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp install --directory=./node_modules/sqlite3 --target_platform=linux (win32 or darwin) add --target_arch=ia32 for 32 bit

downloaded to ./node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding

Following files need to be bundled with the EXE

• /misc
• /static
• index.html
• node_sqlite3.node specific to the platform
• the exe generated above

Setting up the online https://tipitaka.lk Website

Same linux binary is run in the webserver https://tipitaka.app to serve requests from the online website.

1. git clone this github repository
2. copy the static/db/dict-all.db (this fts db is not included in the repository since the big size)
3. check running node tipitaka-app.js and install any missing dependencies
4. pm2 start tipitaka-app.js (run in pm2 at tipitaka.app)

Building Apps for Android

1. following files need to be placed in the assets folder
   • /misc
   • /static
   • index.html
2. Changes are needed in the following files to make sure that fts and dict requests are handled inside the app and db requests are sent to the Android Java runtime
   1. sql-query.mjs disable node imports
   2. constants.js change isAndroid

License

Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

The VRI texts in the static/texts directory are copyrighted to VRI (https://www.vridhamma.org/).