This Python flask app is designed to aid meal planning by cataloging your most frequently used meals and their ingredients, along with general food cupbooard items. This app provides a friendly user interface to a MySQL database holding this data, allowing you to list all your meals, find meals by ingredient, get specific meal information, and create, load, view and delete meal plans.

• Git installed
• Python3.9 installed
• A MySQL server installed & running (preferably MySQL8)

• Clone this repo (git clone [email protected]:travisbacon1/meal_app.git) and navigate to the root directory (cd meals)
• python3 -m venv env
• Activate the virtual environment with the pre-configured script: . venvActivate
• Install the dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Load the sample data into the database: python3 import_sample_data.py
• Run the app: flask run
• Head to localhost:5000 in your browser (0.0.0.0:5000)
• Have a play!

• The venvActivate script should set the Flask environment to development, however if this fails you may have to run export FLASK_ENV=development from within the virtual environment before flask run

• Update schema & app to support meal tags (i.e. type of meal, "special" meal etc. to aid searching)
• Add delete meal functionality
• Add support for ingredient units
• Validate input to make sure it complies with MySQL database schema
• Write unit tests
• Improve CSS styling