Update

After this post was published, some people asked for some other suffixes to be analyzed. I’ve now made an interactive webpage to analyse place names in any way with SQL:

Intro

I noticed something unique when I walked around in Kakkanad, some of the local place names ended with the word “മുഗൾ”.

I haven’t heard of any other place having this suffix in Kerala before, so it was quite interesting to me. The curiosity instantly brewed in my mind, is this really specific to Kakkanad? Why so?

This is the story of solving a problem, making a dictionary book online.

The dictionary

Njattyela Sreedharan (ഞാറ്റ്യേല ശ്രീധരൻ) is an 85 year old person from Kannur, Kerala. Out of his interest for Dravidian languages, he spent 25 years in compiling a dictionary of four Dravidian languages - Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu.

The dictionary was originaly handwritten in a book of four columns. This was later published as a book by Senior Citizens Forum. This news article tells a better story than me here :)

I have a VueJS app, I want to make the <title> and <meta> tags to be populated in page source itself for better SEO.

I could use Server Side Rendering but it was difficult, express.js keeps crashing and there’s JavaScript inconsistencies (ES Module imports didn’t work in node). More explanation at the very bottom.

To solve this problem, I did something wild.

I made a Go server, served the JS app. On each request, the HTML file is processed by Go and title, meta tags are dynamically populated, rest of the page is just another VueJS app.