Nippon Shrines
A web app for exploring prominent shrines and temples in Japan.
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Details
I wanted a clean looking map to explore where prominent Japanase shrines and temples are located, but couldn't find one, so I decided to make my own.
The core philosophy is to keep it simple and clean, providing only a few images and a concise description of the shrine / temple, and linking to more elaborate sites. Thus providing the function of an entrypoint.
All material was gathered from free sources, and duely attributed.
Places can be filtered for Shrines / Temples only, and the marker sizes can be adjusted.
Images are cached on the server, and the size of the delivered image is dynamically optimized, which enables fast response speed.
Tools
Next.js with Typescript
Radix UI / Tailwind for styling
Prisma ORM & MySQL Database hosted on Aiven
Cloudinary for Image hosting
Custom API and CLI for updating places with ease
Sentry for monitoring / observability
Hosted on Vercel, linked with GitHub for CI/CD
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