Recipe library
Structured recipes with ingredients, methods, imagery, filters, and detail views designed for reuse in planning and shopping.
Case study
Modern Recipes
An authenticated recipe platform for coordinating recipes, pantry inventory, USDA-backed ingredient nutrition, meal calendars, shopping lists, and AI-assisted recipe and media workflows.
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Product inventory
Repository evidence: routes, data model, interface screens, and workflow code.
- Page routes
- 57
- Drizzle tables
- 92
- UI components
- 459
- Pipeline files
- 171
- API routes
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Project overview
An authenticated recipe platform for coordinating recipes, pantry inventory, USDA-backed ingredient nutrition, meal calendars, shopping lists, and AI-assisted recipe and media workflows.
Household meal planning breaks down when recipes, pantry inventory, ingredient nutrition, calendar slots, shopping lists, and media workflows live in separate tools. Tracker models those pieces as connected operational records so planning, cooking, stocking, and review can happen in one place.
What was built
A broad household domain turned into product software: large nutrition tables, catalog cleanup, recipe generation, and media pipelines in one application.
Pantry and ingredients
Ingredient and pantry records connect household inventory, food imagery, source names, aliases, and usage context.
Nutrition data layer
FoodData Central Foundation and SR Legacy records are cleaned, deduplicated, normalized into hundreds of thousands of nutrient rows, and linked to ingredient profiles with source provenance.
Meal calendar
Weekly meal slots, recipe selection, and planning state connect the recipe catalog to repeated household routines.
Shopping aggregation
Shopping views derive categorized purchasing work from planned meals, pantry review, and ingredient records.
AI and media workflows
Natural-language recipe generation turns prompts into structured recipes using nutrient targets, pantry/equipment preferences, dietary constraints, ingredient matching, and queued image jobs.
Selected details
Implementation details from the product, data, workflow, and infrastructure layers.
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Nutrition profiles, nutrients, ingredient links, and unit conversions are modeled as structured data with provenance rather than medical guidance.
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USDA import and repair scripts processed FoodData Central Foundation and SR Legacy records into normalized profile, nutrient, ingredient, and unit-conversion tables.
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The local dataset includes thousands of ingredient/profile links and hundreds of thousands of normalized nutrient rows, giving recipe generation real nutrition context.
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Dietary compatibility evaluation produces blocks, warnings, ranking reasons, and unknown-fact states for planning support.
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Recipe generation accepts instructions such as nutrient emphasis, cuisine, dietary restrictions, preferred or avoided ingredients, equipment, pantry mode, and time constraints.
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Generated recipe ingredients are post-processed against catalog candidates before becoming linked records.
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Recipe, ingredient, and equipment image generation moves saved jobs through database rows, Cloudflare queue infrastructure, WebP optimization, R2 storage, and retry/status tracking.
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Upload and file-serving routes support authenticated ownership checks, WebP conversion, local storage, and R2-backed deployment.
Systems overview
How the public pages, staff workflows, data, review steps, and infrastructure connect.
Recipes
Structured ingredients, steps, assets.
Nutrition
Profiles, calculations, provenance.
Meal plans
Calendar slots, templates, recurrence.
Shopping
Aggregated needs and pantry review.
Pantry
Catalog, inventory, household context.
Technology
The platform stack behind the build.
Design language
Warm editorial minimalism for household operations: parchment-white surfaces, thin structural rules, compact type, restrained teal accents, and food imagery used as record evidence.
Philosophy
Operational calm for repeated household work
Tracker treats food records as household operations data: searchable, inspectable, and connected to weekly planning.
Record gridsInspector drawersMeal calendarsGrouped shopping lists
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Moderustic, Cormorant, Fira CodeUI, editorial display, numeric utility
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Selected screens
Additional screens from the case study.