This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing
What I Built
This is a blast from the past, but it's so lovely I couldn't resist submitting it for this challenge.
Kitchen-Sune is a community-driven international recipe book built in collaboration with Front-End Foxes members when we pivoted our nonprofit's efforts from in-person workshops to an international online boot camp during the pandemic. It brings together comfort food recipes from around the globe into a sleek, accessible, and user-friendly Vuepress (later refactored to Vitepress) web application where food lovers and developers alike can discover new dishes.
We were happy to host recipes from Ukraine, Kenya, Nigeria, and everywhere in between. Between Jalebi Babies, Moin-Moin, Puff Puff, and Strawberry Mush, we've got you covered for comfort food!
Demo
Live Demo: Kitchen-Sune App
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/FrontEndFoxes/kitchen-sune
Check out a preview of the recipe book (this recipe for maple syrup candy came with a video):
Journey
Revisiting and showcasing this project was a nostalgic process. Working on a community recipe project taught me the importance of building inclusive, easy-to-navigate web interfaces for diverse content as an educatioal tool. We used to use this repo as a way to train boot camp enrollees in how to use GitHub and make a PR to a repo.
What I Learned: No matter where we are in our journey, food brings us together.
What I'm Proud Of: How timeless and clean the aesthetic remains, making it easy for anyone to find a warm, cozy meal to cook or a snack to throw together (Pandemic Cookies, anyone?).
What's Next: Let's keep going! Add your recipe via a PR to the GitHub repo. And I'd love to have more photos to show off your work.
Top comments (11)
What I really like about this project is that it goes far beyond being a recipe website.
Using a real community project to teach people GitHub, pull requests, and open-source collaboration is such a smart approach. Instead of learning Git through artificial exercises, contributors were actually adding something meaningful that represented their own culture and community.
And years later, the project still looks clean and usable — which is probably one of the best compliments you can give a frontend project. Good design ages well. 🙂
Food bringing people together is already powerful. Food teaching people how to contribute to open source at the same time? Even better. 🍲🦊
Beautiful project and an even better story behind it.
Thank you so much. We had a great time building it and it really brought people together. I did rebuild it from VuePress to VitePress in 2025, but the content remains evergreen :)
Maple syrup snow candy looks like a fun thing to make but I hope I don't see enough snow to make it.
I think I shot that snow video when my kid was about 6, so around 2006?? Now she is 26. Wow, time flies. But yes in Boston sometimes we get a big snow dump!
I love how you used the warm color palette and interactive recipe cards to make the Community Cookbook feel both inviting and functional. Have you thought about sharing this on ZyVOP (zyvop.com) to reach even more engineers?
did...did you look at the app? We don't really have interactive cards, but I admire the hustle
Haha, fair point 😄 You caught me. I’ll take the hustle compliment though!
I found this interesting. Nice app.
thank you!
I love the idea. Bringing everyone together through food. I also love the minimalistic and clean design. You did a great job with this site. Congrats!
thanks it was a labor of love!