A Place for All Your Recipes
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Cena is a fork of Mealie customized for the Civitates network. It is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and Cena will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor. Cena also provides an API for interactions from 3rd party applications.
- 🔍 Fuzzy search
- 🏷️ Tag recipes with categories or tags for flexible sorting
- 🕸 Import recipes from around the web by URL
- 💪 Powerful bulk Category/Tag assignment
- 📱 Beautiful Mobile Views
- 📆 Create Meal Plans
- 🛒 Generate shopping lists
- 🐳 Easy setup with Docker
- 🎨 Customize your interface with color themes
- 💾 Export all your data in any format with Jinja2 Templates
- 🔒 Keep your data safe with automated backup and easy restore options
- 🌍 localized in many languages
- ➕ Plus tons more!
An API allows integration into applications like Home Assistant that can act as notification engines to provide custom notifications based of Meal Plan data to remind you to defrost the chicken, marinade the steak, or start the CrockPot. Additionally, you can access nearly any backend service via the API giving you total control to extend the application. To explore the API spin up your server and navigate to http:https://yourserver.com/docs for interactive API documentation.
Some users of static-site generator applications like ChowDown have expressed concerns about their data being stuck in a database. Considering this is a new project it is a valid concern to be worried about your data. Cena specifically addresses this concern by provided automatic daily backups that export your data in json, plain-text markdown files, and/or custom Jinja2 templates. This puts you in control of how your data is represented when exported from Cena, which means you can easily migrate to any other service provided Cena doesn't work for you.
As to why we need a database?
- Developer Experience: Without a database a lot of the work to maintain your data is taken on by the developer instead of a battle tested platform for storing data.
- Multi User Support: With a solid database as backend storage for your data Cena can better support multi-user sites and avoid read/write access errors when multiple actions are taken at the same time.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.