Realtime Scrabble Game

Introduction

This is a hobby project implementing a realtime scrabble game in 3 languages: English, Swahili, and Sheng (East African)

Motivation

Got to revisit some comp sci concepts as detailed below, using these to create a scrappy PoC during the holidays for the fam(ily). Read the article here for more details

Concepts

• Tries (prefix trees)
• LRUs
• Matrix Traversal
• sockets

Installation Steps

1. Clone/download the project
2. run installation scripts for the server and frontend folders.

> cd frontend
> pnpm i
> pnpm dev

> cd server
> pnpm i
> pnpm run

For the development environment, run a tunneling client to expose your localhost e.g.

ngrok http 8000

The project includes concepts (above) and technologies specified below

Technologies

• svelte dnd
• shadcn
• socket.io
• Typescript

Resources

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• Swahili and Sheng

  • Swahili CSV
  • Swahililine dictionary
  • Other
    • Datascience projects

• Sheng sample corpus

• English - Unix-based systems comes with their own english corpus -> goto /usr/share/dict