🍲 Homebite

Homebite is a comprehensive platform connecting passionate home cooks with food lovers. Built with Flutter and Firebase, it provides a seamless dual-app ecosystem for both customers and cooks.

📱 The Ecosystem

The repository contains two separate cross-platform Flutter applications:

1. Customer App (/customer)

Designed for users looking to discover and order authentic home-cooked meals.

• Discover & Browse: Explore local cooks, their unique dishes, and seasonal offers.
• Order Management & Pooling: Seamlessly add items to the cart, checkout, and utilize the unique order pooling feature for group orders.
• Real-time Chat: Direct communication with cooks for special instructions or updates.
• Profile & Favorites: Manage addresses, payments, and save favorite cooks or dishes.

2. Cook App (/cook_app)

Designed for home chefs to manage their culinary business.

• Menu Management: Easily add and update recipes, dishes, and availability.
• Order Tracking: Real-time notifications and management of incoming customer orders.
• Customer Interaction: Built-in chat support to communicate with customers.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Flutter (Dart)
• Backend & Database: Firebase
  • Cloud Firestore (NoSQL Database)
  • Firebase Authentication (Email/Password & Google Sign-in)
  • Firebase Storage

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Flutter SDK (v3.0.0 or higher)
• Dart SDK
• A Firebase project with Firestore and Authentication enabled

Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Parzi02/Homebite.git
   cd Homebite

2. Setup Firebase

   • You will need to add your own google-services.json (for Android) and GoogleService-Info.plist (for iOS) into both the customer and cook_app directories as per standard Firebase documentation.

3. Run the Customer App

   cd customer
   flutter pub get
   flutter run

4. Run the Cook App

   cd ../cook_app
   flutter pub get
   flutter run

📁 Project Structure

Homebite/
├── customer/            # Customer-facing application
│   ├── lib/
│   │   ├── auth/        # Authentication (Login/Signup)
│   │   ├── cart_and_checkout/
│   │   ├── home_and_browse/
│   │   ├── order_management/
│   │   └── services/    # Firebase & Auth services
├── cook_app/            # Cook-facing application
└── .gitignore           # Global gitignore

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page if you want to contribute.

📜 License

This project is provided for educational/portfolio purposes.