RecipeTracks

Summary 🧑‍🏫

Website based on Django which allows users to store their own set of recipes, and to record their previous experimentations and notes.

More than a recipe database, this website app is made to keep track of the users experiments as a tool to actually improve one's cooking skills. Recipes should be flexible, according to one's taste and hardware (I am pretty sure that my oven cooks pound cakes in a different time than most of the other ones). Keeping track of all those experiments is the equivalent of handwritten notes on old recipe books!

Seeing it live! 👍

The app is currently deployed at Python Anywhere

Features 🛠️

• User authentication via Django
• Saving recipes in the database with sqllite DB
• Users are able to add a "track" to a recipe, which is a personal annotation to the recipe. (For example: I tried to bake the cake 45 minutes but it was too little, I want to try 55 minutes next time). [As an aside, this feedback loop is essential to mastering any skill, cooking being one of them]
• Multi-lingual website thanks to the i18n django package

Tech used 🛠️

• The website uses Django as a framework, and obviously Python as a language
• Django templates are "beautified" using Bootstrap

Docker compose file

Included in this repo is a 'docker-compose' file. This helps setting up the app if you want to run it locally. If you want to run the application locally with Docker, you just need to do the following:

1. Add a secrets folder where configuration files will be stored.
2. Add a .env configuration file in the secrets folder with the Django configuration file (SECRET_KEY and DEBUG)
3. Run docker compose up --build in the project root folder. Docker will download the corresponding images and (theoretically) will run everything properly.