C# project using a Google API to solve a real-world problem.
Aims to use the Gtranslate NuGet package to translate text entered by the user to english or from english to a selected language.
This project is open-ended, take 2 - 3 days
of lab and either with a partner or alone,
develop a c# project that solves a real-world
problem. Maybe your grandma hates her cooking
instruction app and wants you to build one,
or you want to create your own youtube video
search and categorizer hosted on a local
server. Whatever it is, be creative and think
about what design patterns are the best
approach and *explain why using comments*.
- choose language to translate to or from
- start with just english to spanish
- eventually use a dropdown?
- view previous translations?
The structure we chose to use for this project features no Interface or Repository layer. This is because this application does not use a database, and therefore does not need a layer to interact with one.
The app keeps all logic in the ".Core" project, specifically in the Service layer. The ".Core" project also includes our Models directory which includes a Prompt for passing in user input (text prompt and target language) from the Svelte front-end. There is also a DTO used for sending BACK this information from the API (the user's text prompt and the translated result).
This layer of the app includes anything that will interact with the Svelte front-end. This means the controller that sends data to a localhost URL will be accessible for the front-end to access. This project serves as the middleman between our logic and our application UI.
The front-end of this application uses Svelte, a JavaScript framework, and hey api to gain access to the API project of our solution. It performs a fetch to the url endpoint that the API is sending data to which exchanges the user's prompt and selected target language for a translated prompt and the original prompt for reference. This data is then displayed to the user using stateful variables.