Nutrika

Description

a restful website visualizing Taiwan FDA food nutrition fact of items you select

What we use

1. Frontend:

• React: app architecture
• Redux: state container
• Redux-Thunk
• Redux-Saga
• d3, recharts: visualize the data

1. Backend:

• Django, Django REST framework: backend api
• Python: crawler

Feature

1. select(pin) the items and see their nutrition facts
2. fill the target-form(calories, fat, protein and carbs) and get the comparison between target and select items

Others

We use redux-thunk and redux-saga to implement redux async actions. To avoiding over-frequently request to server, we use redux-saga to set timeout when you type the search keyword.

Setup

1. Install postgresql

2. [Optional] Create virtual envirnment

3. virtualenv --no-site-package venv

4. Install dependency

   pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Create user nutrika

   createuser -Psrle nutrika

   If you get the error psql: could not connect to server, read the this post

6. Create db nutrika

   createdb nutrika

7. Insert Data into Database

   python manage.py import_nutrition

8. Run server

   python manage.py runserver

Todos

1. form to add items
2. algorithm to filter unreliable information
3. add items by photo(maybe...)