🍔 Food Genie - Premium AI-Powered Food Delivery Application

Welcome to Food Genie, a full-stack premium food delivery application featuring an interactive user experience and powerful AI integrations to supercharge content generation and reviews analysis.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🍔 Interactive Restaurant Directory: Browse a curated list of popular restaurants, complete with reviews, ratings, and a pure-vegetarian filter.
• 🪄 Food Genie AI Hub:
  • AI Description Generator: Instantly generate SEO keywords, taste profiles, short descriptions, and engaging long descriptions for any dish.
  • AI Review Sentiment Analyzer: Understand customer sentiment with real feedback analysis, including positive/neutral/negative distribution, highlights, concerns, and suggestions.
• 🛒 Persistent Auth & Cart Session: Maintain login state and cart items across page reloads.
• 💳 Payment Integration: Ready-to-go stripe/payment interfaces and clean checkout flows.
• ✨ Premium Dark UI Redesign: Beautiful glassmorphic design systems built with high-fidelity color palettes, Outfit typography, and sleek animations.

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📸 Application Screenshots

🏠 Homepage - Popular Restaurants

Browse local restaurants, check ratings, and filter for dietary preferences.

📊 Food Genie AI Hub

Use advanced AI to generate description copy and analyze sentiment on reviews.

🔐 User Authentication (Sign In & Sign Up)

Secure login and registration with interactive input feedback.

Sign In	Sign Up

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🛠️ Architecture & Tech Stack

Frontend

• Framework: React (Vite)
• State Management: Redux Toolkit & React-Redux
• Styling: Custom CSS and Bootstrap
• Icons & Fonts: Font Awesome, Material Symbols, Outfit Google Font
• Routing: React Router DOM

Backend

• Framework: Node.js & Express
• Database: MongoDB & Mongoose
• File Upload: Cloudinary & Express File Upload
• Authentication: JWT & BcryptJS
• Mailing: Nodemailer

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💻 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18 or higher recommended)
• MongoDB instance (local or Atlas)

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Devarajb049/FoodGenie.git
   cd FoodGenie

2. Configure Environment Variables: Configure .env files in both the frontend and backend directories following the .env.example templates.

3. Install Dependencies & Start the Backend:

   cd backend
   npm install
   npm start

4. Install Dependencies & Start the Frontend:

   cd ../frontend
   npm install
   npm run dev

5. Access the application: Open http://localhost:5173 in your web browser.