arabterm website

May 18, 2026 · View on GitHub

Static site for arabterm.db, deployed to https://forzagreen.github.io/arabterm/.

Stack

Astro static site generator. The build reads arabterm.db directly via better-sqlite3 and emits one HTML page per dictionary (paginated 1000 terms / page), plus a per-dictionary JSON download. No data is checked in; everything is derived from the DB at build time.

Commands

npm install            # install deps
npm run dev            # local dev server at http://localhost:4321/arabterm/
npm run build          # static build into ./dist/
npm run preview        # serve ./dist/ for verification

Layout

Path	Purpose
`src/lib/db.ts`	SQLite reader and legacy-slug map
`src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro`	RTL Arabic shell, GA tag, header/footer
`src/pages/index.astro`	Home — lists all 53 dictionaries
`src/pages/about.astro`	Project description
`src/pages/[dict]/index.astro`	Dictionary page 1 + redirect handler for legacy unprefixed slugs
`src/pages/[dict]/page/[page].astro`	Paginated terms (page 2..N)
`src/pages/[dict]/terms.json.ts`	Per-dictionary JSON download

Legacy URLs

The original site used unprefixed slugs (e.g. /water_engineering/). These now redirect to the canonical name_tech URL (/at_water_engineering/). The map lives in LEGACY_SLUGS in src/lib/db.ts.

Deployment

Pushed to main triggers .github/workflows/gh-pages.yml, which runs npm run build and uploads website/dist/ to GitHub Pages.