jamdon2 / recipe-together

Recipe Together

An app that allows random people to create recipes together, not knowing what ingredients the others add.

How it works

How the data is stored:

Recipes or rooms are stored using RedisJSON and RedisOM.

How the data is accessed:

Data is accessed using an index built at startup.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 16.17.0 LTS

How to run it locally?

• Clone the repository
• Open two terminals, one in the backend folder, and one in the frontend folder
• Run npm install in both terminals
• Make a .env file in the backend folder with the following contents (Make sure to replace the value with your own):

  REDIS_URL=[YOUR REDIS CONNECT STRING]
  

• Import example/ingredients.json into your Redis database at ingredients path
• To start the frontend, run npm start in the frontend terminal
• For the backend, run npm run watch in the backend terminal

Building

Frontend

• Run npm run build in the frontend terminal

Backend

• Run npm run build in the backend terminal

The build files can be accessed in the build folder for both the frontend and backend.