Food and Recipes

This is a simple MVC service app that allows to search through recipe stored
in database. Explore recipes and learn nutrient values for new dishes.

Introduction
Scope of Functionality
Used Technologies
Setup

Introduction

This app was created with aim to practice developing web services using Java
and Spring. It allows the user to browse through newly created database,
which contains various information about food produces, recipes and nutrients.

Scope of Functionality

Main features of the app consists of:

Searching recipes by name, cuisine region or category
Given dish page has information about nutrient values, list of ingredients, step-by-step
instructions and embedded YouTube video tutorial
Allows creating new user profiles saved in local database
Signed-up users may add recipes to favourites

Planned features

In further development following features are planned to be added:

Creating custom recipes stored in database
Verification of created recipe by admin, before displaying it in service
Information about food allergens in recipe page

Used Technologies

In development following technologies were used:

Java SE 15.0.1
Maven
Spring Boot (Spring Data, Spring Web, Spring Security, Thymeleaf)
MySQL
Bootstrap 4.6.0

Setup

In order to run the application follow these steps:

Clone repository ex. in Git Bash typing git clone https://github.com/Kamil-Kuk/food_and_recipes.git
Set your MySQL user login and password in src/main/resources/application.properties
in fields spring.datasource.username and spring.datasource.password respectively (default root and password)
Run the program using IDE or using command line navigate to the root of the project and execute comman mvn spring-boot:run
Type http://localhost:8080 in your browser