Foodify

A web application for creating and collating recipes.

Members

• Daniel Blaker - 5Mixer
• Jade Siang - jadesiang
• Owen Feik - OwenFeik
• Manu Masson - manu354
• Paul Hutchins - hutchinsp01

Requirements

1. NodeJS - Install

Local Development

0. Specify environment variables in a .env file:

cp .env.template .env

to connect to the database you will have to set the correct atlas username and password in the .env file.

1. Install npm packages:

npm install

2. Run the app with npm run dev, this will open the application on

http://localhost:3000

The Backend APIs can be triggered by hitting the following URL:

http://localhost:5000

Technologies Used

• React (v18)
• Node (v16)
• Express (v4)
• MongoDB (latest)

Folder Structure

  ├── backend/
  │   └── ...
  └── frontend/
  │   └── ...

Security

1. Bcrypt is used for storing hashed passwords.
2. Passport-JWT is used for session management.
3. The Joi library is used for checking and validating the params for any given Express request.

Backend

1. Environment files are executed from .env for local development with Dotenv.
2. Mongoose is used as an object modelling framework for MongoDB.