Rikaichamp!

Look up Japanese words with the hover of a mouse.

Rikaichamp is a port of rikaikun, which is a port of rikaichan, which is a port of rikaiXUL. It aims to be simple, reliable, fast, and up-to-date.

It includes simple installation, an up-to-date dictionary, many many bug fixes over its predecessors (e.g. it correctly recognizes the causative passive), automated tests and type-checking, and modern API usage (no sync XHR, XPath etc.).

Twitter: @rikaichamp

Development

git clone https://github.com/birtles/rikaichamp.git
npm install

The install step above will build the add-on and put the output in dist-firefox. To build again you can use:

npm run build

Or to build the Chrome version:

npm run build:chrome

Or to build and package:

npm run prepack

Running

For manual testing you can use:

npm start

To use a specific version of Firefox (e.g. Nightly):

npm start -- --firefox nightly

Testing

npm test

Unit tests only:

npm run test:unit

Browser-based tests only:

npm run test:browser