Recipe Finder GraphQL Demo

Originally written in February 2020 to demo GraphQL & Neo4j capabilities. Users can search and find related recipes based on a list of ingredients.

demovideo.mp4

Projects

recipe-api

GraphQL API powered by NodeJS and Neo4j. Provides an API for searching recipes via ingredients and finding similiar recipes (based on ingredients). Based on the GRANDstack starter.

recipe-finder-app

Quick and simple react front end for the recipe-api.

recipe-dump

Scrapes and formats recipes from target websites. Supports Epicurious and BBC Goodfood (with a URL list).

Project Setup

1. Scrape recipes using recipe-dump

   cd ./recipe-dump
   npm install
   npm run generate
   npm run start
   npm run format
   

2. Import scraped recipes in to Neo4j
3. Configure the API environment settings. See ./recipe-api/.env.example for an example.
4. Run the API
5. Run the front end (recipe-finder-app)