Manabu is a Japanese flashcard learning app built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, using EJS for server-side rendering.
It’s designed as a smarter Anki alternative with CRUD flashcards, AI-generated example sentences, pronunciation practice, and quiz-based vocabulary tests.
- Node.js, Express, MongoDB & Mongoose
- EJS templating & Bootstrap 5
- JWT & cookie-parser for authentication
- express-session for quiz score tracking
- dotenv & method-override
- bcrypt for password hashing
- Axios (OpenRouter DeepSeek API) for sentence generation
- Wanakana & browser Speech APIs for text normalization, TTS & speech recognition
- User signup, login, logout (secure cookies with JWT)
- Flashcard create, update & delete (kanji, vocab, phrase)
- Generate & save AI-created example sentences
- Vocabulary test with scoring
- Pronunciation test with speech recognition
- Text-to-speech playback
- Default flashcards for guests
/– Home (flashcards)/user/signup&/user/login– Register / Login/flashcard/create– Add new flashcard/flashcard/generate/:id– Generate AI example sentence/test/vocab– Take vocabulary quiz/test/pronunciation– Pronunciation test
✨ 楽しく日本語を学ぼう、Manabu と一緒 ！