Inspiration
Has this ever happened to you, you trying to read articles,pdf online, and you come across certain words that you don't know the meaning of? Now you get distracted looking for the meaning, and before you notice your flow has been lost, it would be so nice if there were an extension where you could type words and their meanings would be shown, so your time wouldn't be wasted. Happy reading those articles now!!!
What it does
This is a Chrome version 3 manifest dictionary extension where API requests are sent to the dictionary API and the meaning is displayed if a word has multiple meaning then their users have option to change between the meaning too
How we built it
For handling the API query, JavaScript is used for the dictionary API The Free Dictionary API is used and the extension body is made using plain HTML/CSS
Challenges we ran into
I was new to REST API when I attempted to make this one had to learn different methods of REST API I was new to JavaScript as well
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Overall, I am proud that I was able to turn my vision into code, which was turned into a useful product and indeed I hope with this I am able to solve the problem which I faced with complicated words
What we learned
A lot about REST API ,javascipt and this was my first time making extension as well
What's next for Chrome Dictionary Extension
Since LLM and Ai has been hot topic throughout this generation i am planning to implement ai over here as well
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