nextmeal.io

nextmeal.io is a meal-planning site written with a React.js frontend, and an AWS Serverless Application Model backend. The site is deployed at nextmeal.io.

Its current features are:

• Groceries inventory management.
• Tracking custom macronutrient goals.
• Recipe planning and search using the Sponnacular's API.
• Prediction of recipe healthiness using a Keras Neural Network and the OpenFoodFacts API.

Technical Description

The complete stack used to develop the project is:

Backend: Node.js running on AWS Lambda + API Gateway

Database: DynamoDB

Frontend: React.js and Bootstrap

Web Deployment: Nginx + Let's Encrypt running on EC2

Machine Learning: Python and Keras

The full list of API endpoints for the backend is available in SAM-backend/ENDPOINTS.md

Building the project

Requirements:

To build and deploy the project, you need to have:

• An AWS account.
• The AWS CLI installed and configured.
• The SAM CLI installed.
• npm and pip installed.

Setup instructions:

• Clone the repository.
• cd nextmeal.io/SAM-backend
• Run sam build && sam deploy.
• Inside your AWS management console, go to the API Gateway page and ensure you have an API group named sam-app.
• Copy the value of the ID field for sam-app.
• cd ../frontend
• Create a .env file in nextmeal.io/frontend with the variable API_ENDPOINT=<sam-app ID>.
• Run npm install.
• Run npm start.