I won the Grandma's Kitchen Award. :) The Devpost submission is here: https://devpost.com/software/recipe-vault-unp73h
- Clone the repo.
- cd into Recipe-Vault
- run
pip install -r requirements.txt - cd into recipevault
- Change the secret key in settings.py to something random.
- run
python manage.py makemigrations - run
python manage.py migrate - run
python manage.py createsuperuser - run
python manage.py runserver - You're all set :)
Our family has very diverse roots from where we come from, so it is safe to say that we have a lot of recipes that have been handed down by generations. But sometimes it gets hard to keep track of all of then. So I came up with the idea of a recipe bank to store the family recipes locally for fast and easy access.
I allows for the family to access a webpage in which the recipes can be viewed, sorted, edited, and created all on one place and very fast since it is hosted on the local network.
I built this app using Django for the backend and used Bootstrap Studio to build the frontend.
I spent a lot of time fixing bugs with Django's html template processing system since I was not very familiar with it. I also ran into challenges with CSS in terms that there was a lot of tweaking to get things right so that the backend and frontend would interact.
I am very proud of how long it took me to make this application even though I had not had much experience with Django. I am also proud of how the app looks and that it functions great.
I have learned a great deal about Django, Python, SQLite, CSS, Bootstrap. Suffice it to say, this was a great learning experience especially since this was my first time really dealing with a website backend.
I think that the next step would be to expand the application so that there would be greater filtering and sorting on the home and search page.