About App & Data

This is a very simple but functional, open-source freeware, Bhagavad Gita web app I wrote recently. It uses Next.js and Apollo Client to retrieve Bhagavad Gita chapters and verses data from a GraphQL endpoint, and displays it on browser. It is shared under free-software MIT license.

Data source (GraphQL endpoint): https://gql.bhagavadgita.io/graphql (GraphQL Explorer: https://gql.bhagavadgita.io/graphiql)

I have deliberately kept this version very simple. I saw some open-source Gita apps using Next.js but their code was quite involved. I wanted to see whether one can write very simple Hindu scripture viewer web apps using current Next.js framework without too much code and coding complexity, provided scripture content was available through an API. Note that using current Next.js framework may provide performance benefits for the web app.

More about this app can be read in this associated blog post.

App GitHub repository and associated README.

App version: 2.0, Date: 4th June 2024
App author: Ravi S. Iyer