Essk / whats-for-tea

A meal planner to help answer the eternal question

What's for Tea?

A meal planner to help answer the eternal question.

Current status

• VERY early development

• Not much is implemented and whatever is implemented, probably doesn't work very well.

• As this is a a toy project in early development with requirements largely undefined and no roadmap to speak of, external contributions are likely to be rejected.

• The app will eventually incorporate an Express server and web interface, but it's intended to run on a local network. I'd strongly caution against giving this a live IP address ever.

Data interface

• Mongoose against a remote DB. I am using the free teir of Atlas during developement and the mongoose connection reads in connection info from /db-connect/connect.json. There is an example of the format in /db-connect/connect.example.json

Adding data

You add data directly into the DB using the atlas interface or (in progress) I am adding CLI handlers as npm scripts to make that a little easier before getting Express and form handling implemented.

Measurements

• npm run setup:measurements --mode=common
  • adds grams, kilograms, millilitres, litres, teaspoons, tablespoons and each as measurements.
• npm run setup:measurements with the following arguments to add a custom measurement
  • unitName (required) - is used to look up related units so should be unique
  • notationSingular (required) - e.g. "tsp"
  • notationPlural (required) - e.g. "tsps"
  • parentMeasure (optional) - Will be used to convert smaller units to larger ones. provide the unitName of the measurement that this will change to once a threshold amount is reached
  • parentThreshold (optional) - Will be used to convert smaller units to larger ones. e.g. grams has a parentThreshold of 1000, any amount over 1000 will be converted to kilograms in app views.