Technical details¶

Source code¶

TLT's source code is freely available in the tunic-language-tool GitHub repository.

The repository's README.md contains technical instructions for building and running the application yourself.

Technology¶

The main technical dependencies are:

• Node.js and good, old-fashioned JavaScript!
  • Node Version Manager (nvm)
• The wonderful Vue.js framework
• Tiptap, an excellent headless editor platform which I customized by adding Tunic rune support
• This static site is built using the powerful and easy-to-use Python-based Zensical framework
  • Python
  • uv

Architecture¶

TLT is a Single Page Application (SPA) implemented primarily with VueJS.

Session-local storage is used so that work is not lost when refreshing the browser or if the computer goes to sleep.

The app supports saving work to a local file and re-opening it later. This allows for the "work" of translation to happen over however long a time period the user wants to.

The Tunic language graphics were my interpretation and hand-designed. Templates and a script are used to generate the entire set of possible Tunic language characters.

All scripts are visible in the package.json.

GitHub Pages is used for hosting.

GitHub Actions is used for software lifecycle automation; commits to main cause the static site and app to automatically build and deploy.

Other¶

TLT does not make use of:

• Server-side or back-end components of any sort
• Cookies
• Local storage (across sessions)

TLT does not have automated tests at this time (to my shame as a previously professional software engineer).