Smart Choice Recipes

Intro

This recipe site focuses on meals that are quick, easy, healthy and only have up to 8 ingredients.

Designed to fit around busy lifestyles, the user experience is simple and clean with limited clutter.

Site flow

Meals can be filtered on the home screen by ingredient, category(ie breakfast) and name

User can save favourites and comment on recipes by signing up to premium

Technologies

I shall be using Python with the following packages and technologies:

• django for the web framework
• postgresql for the database
• python-decouple, to seperate config info from code
• django-filter, to siplify the user filtering of objects in browser
• stripe to aid in the process of taking payments

Run on your local machine

• Make sure you have pip and virtualenv

• Clone the repository into your virtual environment:

$ git clone https://github.com/danieldeiana/recipease.git

• Go to recipease/settings.py and scroll to the DATABASES variable. and comment/comment out base on if it's a local or Heroku server

• Activate you virtual environment and whilst in the root folder (containing manage.py) run the following:

$ python manage.py runserver

• Then visit localhost in your browser

Additional info

The css for the project has been kept in one file, within the recipe app

Due to complications using images with Heroku as a hobbyist, I've decided to create a image charfield(string) in the Meal model and link to external images

References

Vitor Freitas has a wonderfull Django blog which helped a lot:

• deploy django and postgresql using heroku

• how to use python decouple to seperation config data

• how to extend django's user model (I spotted this article late and with better planning, I could have integrated some of the concepts better)

• Data Analytics with Jupyter and Pandas

  COMING SOON