Technologies & Technical Challenges - gorterd/open-fridge GitHub Wiki

We’re using the MERN stack for our project. We’re using MongoDB hosted using the Atlas service for our database, Express for our server framework, Node as our server runtime environment, and React on the frontend.

recipe-scraper: This library scrapes recipe webpages from websites such as Yummly or AllRecipes and returns a JSON object with the recipe data. We will be using this library to seed our database.

recipe-ingredient-parser: This library will allow us to parse the ingredients scraped by recipe-scraper into quantity, unit, and actual ingredient, for easier searching.