MyRecipePal

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Inspiration

As university students, we all understand that one of the biggest struggles of living by yourself is cooking food. We wanted to make it easy to find and craft new recipes, while still eating healthy.

What it does

With MyRecipePal, we make it easy for you to find new recipes to try. By filtering using your preferences, allergies, and cooking time, it's ensured that you will always find the right recipe for you. MyRecipePal allows you to eat healthier, save time, and improve your cooking skills all at the same time.

How we built it

We used React, JavaScript, ChakraUI, and Bootstrap for the frontend. For the backend. we used CockroachDB and Express,

Challenges we ran into

Before hacking started, one of our teammates felt sick and had to go home. Without him, a lot of our planning and ideas had to be delayed and reinvisioned. He was a big part of keeping our team together and energized throughout the night, so we were all discouraged from him leaving.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Instead of giving up, we took the loss of a teammate with even more determination to win. We utilized our resources, such as discord for communication, to help us continue moving forward with our project. As a result, we still managed to go beyond our expectations and make considerable progress on our project

What we learned

Some of the skills we learned included using a new, serverless database, experimenting with a different css framework, and how branches and pull requests can improve your project. Aside from tech-related skills, we’ve learned how to be flexible and push through challenges. It’s very rare that things will go according to plan. As long as you’re flexible and determined to do what it takes to move forward, you will be successful.

What's next for MyRecipePal

In the future, we hope to add:

• Accounts/login system
• Forums for people to talk about recipes and health
• A tracker that keeps track of your meals, calorie intake, etc

Built With

• chakraui
• cockroachdb
• express.js
• javascript
• node.js
• react