🍳 Recipe Radar

Recipe Radar is a full-stack web app that helps you discover new meals based on the ingredients you already have — powered by the Spoonacular API.

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🚀 Features

• 🔍 Search recipes by ingredients
• 🧠 View detailed recipe info
• 🎲 Discover popular or random meals
• ❤️ Save your favorite recipes

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🛠 Tech Stack

Frontend

• React 19
• TypeScript
• Vite
• Tailwind CSS

Backend

• Node.js / Express
• TypeScript
• SQLite
• Spoonacular API

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🧰 Installation

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com//recipe-radar.git cd recipe-radar

Install dependencies for both client and server

cd client && npm install cd server && npm install

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▶️ Run the app

Backend

cd server npm run dev # runs nodemon src/server.ts

Frontend (in another terminal)

cd ../client npm run dev

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🔑 Environment Variables

Create .env in /server:

SPOON_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

You can get an API key here: https://spoonacular.com/food-api/console#Profile