Project Notes

Working Notes:

• Ingredients can only be accessed in bulk via their category. In terms of the API, this means that a client cannot not directly issues a request for all ingredients. This is likely reflective of how the app will be used, but we can discuss alternatives if this is not acceptable.
• We need to devise a way to express the relationship between 'recipes' and 'ingredients' in the API.
  • Current thought: build a /ingredient_recipes join table, with:
    • recipe_id (fk reference to recipes)
    • ingredient_id (fk reference to ingredients)
    • amount (float)
    • unit_of_measure (fk reference to a unit_of_measure table?)
  • API endpoints would then be: /ingredient_recipes/...
  • When (eventually) shopping lists are created, similar units of measure are grouped together to help consolidate the shopping list. Ex: if two recipes call for 1 cup of milk, the shopping list reads "2 cups of milk."