🍳 Recipe Book App [LIVE]

A full-stack web application where users can search, view, and save recipes.

The live app is hosted on Render for free. As a result, the backend takes ~30 seconds to boot up. Thanks for your patience!

🚀 Features

• 🔐 User Authentication – Sign up, log in, and manage sessions using JWT.
• 🍽 Recipe Search – Scrapes recipes from AllRecipes with BeautifulSoup.
• 📖 Save Favorites – Users can bookmark and manage their recipe collection.
• ⚡ Full-Stack CRUD – Create, Read, Update, and Delete user data.
• 🌐 Deployed – Accessible live on Render.

🛠 Tech Stack

Frontend: React
Backend: Django REST Framework
Database: PostgreSQL
Web Scraping: BeautifulSoup (Python)
Authentication: JWT (djangorestframework-simplejwt)
Hosting: Render

📸 Screenshots

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📦 Installation & Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+)
• Python (v3.10+)
• PostgreSQL

Backend Setup

cd backend
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Frontend Setup

cd frontend
npm install
npm start