I have always wanted to have a recipe website but never found something that I was satisfied with.
There are currently a lot of different selfhosted solutions available to us, some of them are great but they lack features that are not necessarily good but they are features that I want.
Features I want:
These are the features I want in a recipe website:
- Card Layout (Im just a fan of card layout in general)
- Database with ingredients (cost, nutrition values)
- Nutrition information calculated based on ingredients in recipe
- Costs calculated based on ingredients
- Convertable (Metric/Freedom Units) Scaleable (Portions)
- Tags
- Recipe steps like a checklist
- Filter recipes based on tags
Advanced nice to have features:
- Being able to save recipes for mealprep
- Being able to generate a shopping list based on saved recipes
- Filter recipes based on ingredients
- Automated ingredient prices based on local shops (Switzerland)
Framework
All of these heavily point to me needing something CMS like with a database. I did like Nuxt Content but there is no way I could transform it for what I need. Nuxt Content v2 (which uses Nuxt 3/Vue3) is rumoured to release at the end of April. I will check it out for sure but not for this project.
My current idea is to use Laravel 9 with Vue 3 and TailwindCSS. But this is still in the planning phase and I will only really start this project after my exams in june.
