dict.se

A multilingual Swedish dictionary. Look up Swedish words and get translations, definitions, and inflections across Chinese, English, and more.

AI Coding

This project is built with AI coding steered by human judgement. All architectural decisions are made by the human; implementation is delegated to AI.

Tech Stack

• Web — Next.js, hosted on AWS Amplify
• API — Node.js Lambda + API Gateway (REST)
• Auth — AWS Cognito
• Database — PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, Drizzle ORM
• IaC — AWS CDK (infra/cdk), region eu-north-1
• Monorepo — pnpm workspaces

Data Sources

dict.se combines data from open sources and original editorial content.

Folkets Lexikon — Swedish–English dictionary created by the community and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

Additional sources and original content will be listed here as they are added.

Structure

apps/
  web.dict.se/       # Next.js web app
  api.dict.se/       # Node.js Lambda (planned)
  mobile.dict.se/    # React Native (planned)
infra/
  cdk/               # AWS CDK infrastructure
packages/
  eslint-config/     # Shared ESLint rules