The Recipe Builder

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  A recipe with a healthy suggestion by ChatGPT

Inspiration

As 2 university students, we have had a lot of times where there are random products in the fridge and we are just too lazy to make something healthy. Often this comes from not knowing what can be created using those recipes, so we wanted to make a tool that would take in the info about all the products you have and what healthy options can come out of it.

What it does

The tool allows you to add ingredients that you currently have in your fridge or cupboards and to then generate what recipes can be done with the ingredients as well as GPT-suggested healthy addition to each recipe.

You can also create your own recipes to be used in the future and to be evaluated by ChatGPT API

How we built it

We built it using a MERN(MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) stack and we have also used OpenAI's API to access ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo.

Challenges we ran into

To get more experience in Web Development, we decided to use a tech stack that we were not very familiar with. This was a very challenging task but we managed to pull through and finish a complete project.

Another challenge was understanding the documentation for OpenAI's API but in the end we dealt with this well.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Half of the team have never seen the MERN stack before and the other half haven't used it in over 2 years, so we are very proud to have created a fully working project

What we learned

We learned that coding at 4am is not productive at all

But more importantly we have learned how to use the MERN stack and how to connect to other APIs.

What's next for The Recipe Builder

Currently, this project doesn't have an ability to store the ingredients that you have long-term. A great addition would be a possibility to create a user account where you would store what you have in your collection of items!

Built With

• chatgpt
• express.js
• mern
• mongodb
• node.js
• openai
• react