An easier way to find how a German word is used in sentences in Leipzig Corpora

Background

Have you ever wondered what the gender for a "request" or a "repository" is?

As a software developer who is a non-native German speaker, I often encounter German words that are borrowed directly from English like "repository", "tag" etc without knowing its "gender". But luckily the "gender" can be inferred from the context with the help of declensions. So by showing the word in different sentences, one can easily determine its gender with 100% confidence. Leipzig Corpora is a handy tool in such a case. Using this small extension, the user can query a word without visiting the home page of the Leipzig Corpora project but right in the extension toolbar!

Screenshots

query page

result page

setting page

Installation

1. make sure pnpm is installed, otherwise run npm install -g pnpm (node version >=18.0 is recommended)
2. go to the scr folder and run pnpm install to install all the dependencies
3. run pnpm build or npm run build to build the production-ready version
4. in the chrome browser, go to chrome://extensions and enable developer mode
5. click Load unpacked extension and select the dist folder generated from step 3

TODO

[ ] dark mode [ ] user defined corpora strings

Thanks

This extension is bootstrapped with chrome-extension-boilerplate-react-vite