Overview of My Submission

This is an app that allows you to build recipes one ingredient at a time. 5 people join a session, and each person selects one ingredient that they deem fit for the meal type.
Built using TypeScript, Express.js, and React

Submission Category:

Wacky Wildcards

Language Used

TypeScript

Link to Code

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…

View on GitHub

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• Check out Redis OM, client libraries for working with Redis as a multi-model database.
• Use RedisInsight to visualize your data in Redis.
• Sign up for a free Redis database.