Find a Meal

Welcome to my meal-finding app. The purpose of this app is to provide a user some inspiration for what food they want to eat based on a number of different parameters.

Local Setup

First, clone the repository into a directory of your choice using git clone.

• Then, install dependencies using npm install in the root directory.
• Create an API Key, then create a .env fil in the root directory as so:

API_KEY=<your_api_key_combo>

• Test the connection to the API by running the development server using npm run dev. Click "Search Recipes" and query the word "Pizza" with no selections.
• A successful connection is established if you get a result back with an array of cards on a carousel, followed by an image of the recipe, a description, and a link the the recipe itself.

How to find a meal using the app

Using a general query

You are able to search recipes without any further filtering. All you have to do is go the the search bar where it says "Type in a food...", type in a type of food (ie: pasta), and hit "Done" at the bottom.

Using a filtered query

You can choose to enter in a type of food, or just search for recipes by simply checking off different parameters given to you in the menu. The API will select a number of foods based on the amount of filters you put on it. Careful to not make your search ultra-specific, or else an error message will show, encrouraging you to broaden your search.

Welcome contributions and features

Search by ingredients

There is an endpoint for this on the Spoonacular documentation for searching by ingredients that somebody has suggested to me personally. I do not think it would be too hard to integrate.

Making grocery lists based off of recipes

Each recipe can theoretically be re-fed back into the API and a rough grocery list can be attained through this search. After a user is done selecting one or more recipes, it is possible to leverage the OpenAI API to contruct a prompt that creates a composite grocery list that combines the ingredients of one through all of the recipes. can be exported as a .csv or .txt file.

Using a database to store favorite recipes and grocery lists

So far, I have integrated Prisma into the project to act as a connection to a PostgreSQL server. The end goal is to have user be able to save favorite recipes, grocery lists, and search history.