🍳 RecipEasy — A Social Recipe Finder App

RecipEasy is a cross-platform recipe discovery and sharing app that blends social networking with cooking inspiration. Users can search, post, and engage with recipes, while admins moderate content and track analytics.

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📌 Overview

Manual recipe management via web search or physical records is inefficient and fragmented.
RecipEasy consolidates:

• Recipe discovery
• Community interaction
• Content creation & analytics
• Administrative moderation tools

It works on modern web browsers, Android devices, and desktop platforms, supporting both online and offline usage.

📷 Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of the RecipEasy app (only for the webapp version):

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✨ Features

• User Authentication & Profiles
  • Sign up, log in, upload profile pictures
  • Role-based access (User / Admin)
• Recipe Search
  • Search by recipe name, first letter, or ingredient
  • Powered by TheMealDB API
• Recipe Management
  • Save favorite recipes
  • Maintain search history
• Content Creation
  • Post recipes with images, videos, YouTube links
  • Edit, delete, and view analytics
• Social Interaction
  • Like, share, comment
  • Follow/unfollow users
• Messaging
  • Direct user-to-user chat
  • Offline & online chatbot support
• Personalized Feed
  • Approved posts from followed users
• Admin Panel
  • Approve/reject posts
  • View rejected items
  • Access analytics
• Analytics
  • Charts and stats for engagement, likes, and posting frequency
• Offline Support
  • LocalStorage & Firebase fallback

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Mobile: Java (Android Studio)
• Desktop: Electron
• Backend: Firebase, LocalStorage, MySQL
• API: TheMealDB

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👥 User Classes

• Regular Users
  • Search, save, and share recipes
  • Post content and interact socially
• Admins
  • Moderate posts
  • Access analytics
• Guest Users (future enhancement)
  • View public recipes without login

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💻 Operating Environment

• Operating Systems: Windows 7/8/10/11, macOS, Linux, Android 8+
• Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge

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🚀 Installation & Setup

Web Version

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Prithvi1101/RecipEasy-A-Social-Recipe-Finder-App.git
   cd RecipEasy/web

💻 Install dependencies

• **Install Node.js
• **Run

  npm install
  

Configure Firebase

1. Create a project in Firebase Console.
2. Enable the following services:
   • Authentication
   • Firestore
   • Storage

Add Firebase Config

• Add your Firebase configuration to firebaseConfig.js.

Run the App

npm run dev

🔹 Android Version

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Prithvi1101/RecipEasy-A-Social-Recipe-Finder-App.git

   Open in Android Studio

Navigate to the android/ folder and open the project

Configure Firebase

Download google-services.json from Firebase Console

Place it inside the app/ directory

Build & Run

Use an emulator or a physical device

Press Run ▶ in Android Studio

🔹 Desktop Version (Electron)

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Prithvi1101/RecipEasy-A-Social-Recipe-Finder-App.git


npm install

Configure Firebase Add your Firebase config to src/firebaseConfig.js

npm start
npm run build

I made this for my Software Engineering and Requirements course and it was awarded the best project out of 30+ submissions.