A Bible reader built on the CrossReferences.org dataset: phrase-level cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, anchored in each translation's own words. Select a highlighted word to see what it points to, or a verse number to see everything on that verse.
Try it live here.
You'll need the .NET 10 SDK. Use this template (or clone it), then:
dotnet run --project Readerand open http://localhost:5080. The data ships with the repo, so there's nothing to wire up.
If you host your own copy, please give it your own name (Reader/wwwroot/manifest.webmanifest).
It needs about 500 MB of memory.
.NET 10, Blazor with static server rendering. No database, no interactive circuits.
At startup the app reads the JSON in Reader/json/ and builds everything it serves: each
translation's verses (split records joined in that translation's order), where every anchor
sits in its verse, and the verse HTML itself. The log reports how many anchors were placed,
and how many could not be, per translation.
Pages are rendered on the server. The reference pane is filled with small HTML fragments
from /pane/..., fetched by wwwroot/js/reader.js when a word or verse number is selected.
The browser only ever holds what is on screen.
Each anchor is searched for only inside its own verse record, case-sensitively first and then case-insensitively.
- KJV follows the TSK's own rule: each anchor is the next occurrence after the previous one.
- Other translations: anchors that occur once are placed first. An anchor occurring more than once takes its first occurrence not already covered by another anchor.
Anchors are not meant to overlap, but some do. The text is cut at every anchor boundary, and a piece of text covered by several anchors opens all of them, innermost first. It is marked with a double underline.
Reader/appsettings.json:
| Setting | Meaning |
|---|---|
Reader:DefaultTranslation |
Where a first-time visitor lands. BSB by default. |
Reader:PathBase |
Set when hosting under a sub-path behind a proxy, e.g. /reader. |
The S21 translation is enabled by an optional file; see Reader/json/optional/README.md.
Reader/json/ is a copy of the dataset's json/ folder. Corrections belong in the
data repository, not here.
Cross-reference data © CrossReferences.org, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Bible texts: KJV, BSB and AOV, all public domain.
Fonts: Source Serif 4 and Inter, SIL Open Font License (see Reader/wwwroot/fonts/).