French Trainer App

2025

I recently moved to France and as such, I am attempting to learn French. I wanted to create an app that would help me learn French but also practice Full Stack Development skills. The idea is still evolving, but the current idea is to start with basic flashcards that can be stored in a database. Additionally, I want to support the NUMEROUS French verb conjugations and have a way to practice those as well. Because I am interested in exploring LLMs further, I would also like to be able to interact with my flashcards using LLMs.

To track this project's progress, as well as inspect my code for the whole project, visit my github page.

The Stack

FastAPI for the Python backend API.
- SQLModel for the Python SQL database model definitions (ORM).
- SQLite for a lightweight database option. The plan is to switch to PostgreSQL in the future.
- Alembic for database migrations.
React for the frontend.
Chainlit for the LLM ui. This works in conjunction with a local LLMs using Ollama.

This stack is subject to change as the project evolves. It is pretty simple at the moment and heavily influenced by FastAPI's Template.