Documentation
How NipponDaily works, as a short book: the idea, how it is built, how the words are made and checked, and how to work on it.
Chapters
The idea
- Core theme1What the app is, why time is its theme, and the principles every feature is checked against.
- Core features2What a reader gets: a word a day, a calendar, patterns across the words, the evidence behind every claim, and no tracking.
How it is built
- Architecture3The stack, the layout, and the one rule that keeps upcoming words out of the browser.
- Daily words4What an entry holds, when a day opens, and how the app reads across the words.
- API5Every endpoint, what it returns and when it answers an error.
- Seasons6How the year clock works: the date in Japan, the daily check and the reader's own pick.
- Colour and shape7The seasonal palettes, named, and the shape language each season gives the UI.
- Error and fallback states8A live catalogue of every degraded, empty or failure state the UI can render.
The words
- Data integrity9Where every claim comes from, how an entry is generated and checked, and the licences behind the sources.
- Adding and fixing words10How to add a month, correct a word, refresh the sources and read a failing check.
Working on it