Aard2 for Web /Aard2 for Web/ is a minimalistic web UI to look up words and browse content of dictionaries in [[https://github.com/itkach/slob][slob format]].

/Aard2 for Web/ requires [[http://java.com/download/index.jsp][Java 1.7 or newer]] and a modern browser such as [[https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/][Chrome]] or [[http://mozilla.org/firefox][Firefox]].

[[https://github.com/itkach/aard2-web/releases/][Download Aard2 for Web]]

To start the application, run

#+BEGIN_SRC sh java -Dslobber.browse=true -jar aard2-web-0.8.jar ~/Downloads/*.slob #+END_SRC

(assuming you have some slob files in /~/Downloads/ directory). This should open Aard2 web UI page (http://localhost:8013) in the default system browser.

To start the web server on a different port, set system property /slobber.port/. For example, to start on port 8014:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh java -jar -Dslobber.port=8014 -Dslobber.browse=true ~/Downloads/*.slob #+END_SRC

To build:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh

clone slobj and slobber sources

git clone https://github.com/itkach/slobj.git git clone https://github.com/itkach/slobber.git

clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/itkach/aard2-web

#build fat jar cd aard2-web ./gradlew build

#+END_SRC