Recipya – Blog

The Journey Continues

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Phew, what a ride these 4 past months were! Today marks the day when Recipya v1.2.0 is officially released 🎉 So, what’s new? Many things. Let’s go over four highlights.

First, the recipes module now supports tools, keywords and videos. Yes, that’s right! You can now attach videos to recipes, and fetched recipes that contain embedded videos, e.g. a YouTube video, will display them in the media carousel.

Second, the advanced search. This feature lets you tweak your search query for the desired results. For example, let’s say your database contains over 200 recipes, and you want to search for all those with chicken in the title. In the search bar, you would type name:chicken and tap enter. All recipes with chicken in the title will then be displayed.

Third, import support from dozens of recipe manager applications. You may now import recipes from Mealie, Tandoor, Paprika, AccuChef, ChefTap, Crouton, Easy Recipe Deluxe, Kalorio, Recipe Keeper, RecipeSage, Saffron. Please consult the documentation for software-specific instructions.

Finally, the settings page has been moved to a settings dialog inspired by Open WebUI’s. It looks fresh, modern, and well-organized.

As a bonus, Recipya now has an official mascot, Bananacat the cutie pie!

In addition, plenty of bugs, such as issues with JSON recipe imports, converting and scaling ingredients, data races, and image re-compressions, were thankfully fixed. And, most importantly for many, over 100 more websites are now supported! Please read the release notes for all the latest goodies.

Something that amazed me is that many people opened one or multiple pull requests for this release. How cool is that! I thank all contributors— bakker, ged, Julian, and Marcus Blennegård— for having delved into my codebase, many of whom have never touched Go, and improving what needed to be improved. Keep up the great work guys, and I’m happy that you enjoy the software.

You might ask what’s coming next in v1.3.0 and beyond. Well, buckle up and check what’s planned on the roadmap or in the GitHub issues. I’m particularly pumped about improving the measurement system. Please feel free to open issues if you have ideas on how Recipya can be improved, especially on how generative AI could be used could be used. You are welcome to work on some open issues. Don’t worry, I don’t bite!

Alright, time for me to continue coding and you to start cooking. Catch you later, y’all!

Experience the Rising Mountain

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Raise your swords high towards the eternal sun as we emerge victorious from a monumental battle! We march back home to our tavern to celebrate the end of these dark days. Booze and moose awaits. As we sip our seventh beer, we notice a glaring light from the kitchen, initially ignoring it. It shines brighter and brighter, so bright that it’s blinding us. We stand up, swords at hand, walking drunkenly towards the source, only to discover something out of this world. The blinding light fades away the closer we approach it, revealing an unknown, thin, rectangular box. We rejoice as the screen displays “Recipya v1.1.0 is now available.” Jared, did you catch this? Recipya v1.1.0 has been released!

A monumental, meticulous attention has been given to the user interface. You will notice how much nicer and responsive the improved interface is compared to v1.0.0. You can now disable account registrations if you self-host an instance over the wire. You can also automatically login if you do not intend to have more than one user account. Recipes can now be sorted and searched in various ways. Do you have text file recipes? If you so, then Recipya can import them. Please open an issue if the resulting import is off. The final highlight I want to mention is a self-update module has been implemented, which means you will be notified within the application once an update is available. How cool is that! Furthermore, the recipe scraper module has been refreshed to ensure that all sites are working as expected. Also, you can now scrape 28 more websites.

Please read the release notes to catch all the other free goodies this update brings!

Upgrading is simple. If you are using Docker, then please pull the latest image. Otherwise, download the latest release from GitHub and replace your current Recipya executable with the latest. Please ensure to backup your database before running the new executable in case something goes south.

Contributions are encouraged and welcome. A dev container has been added for you start writing code in no time. The roadmap has been updated and is available here. Thank you!

The Future is Now

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Behold your trembling kitchen for Recipya has been officially unleashed into the wild!

I am pleased to finally show the world the recipe manager software I have been working hard on since my first commit in May 2021. You might ask why another recipes manager when we’ve got Tandoor, Mealie, Paprika, Grocy, Cooklist, Grossr, and a whole lot more? The answer is simple: none of them satisfied my needs. Either they weren’t free and opensource, had too many unneeded features, their frontend was slow, or they were too hard to install. Although I do have to admit Tandoor recipes is the king after having discovered it a few months back.

And thus I started this ambitious project in Go. The goal was to create a simple, clean and powerful recipe manager my whole family can enjoy. As with every other such solution, you can add recipes to your ever-growing collection of recipes, create cookbooks, view and print recipes. One big feature that differentiates Recipya from the others is its measurement systems module. Essentially, the software can convert all new recipes to your preferred measurement system, either the insatiable imperial or the mighty metric. Gone are the times when you convert all your teaspoons and cups to grams. Another powerful feature is the website scraper. Most other solutions are written in Python and thus use the hhursev/recipe-scrapers package to import recipes from around the web. As there are none written in Go, I decided to create my own from scratch. It is extensively-tested and fully supports 264 websites at the time of this writing. Another cool feature of Recipya is the automatic calculation of the nutrition facts per 100g when adding a recipe. Check out the feature tour to learn everything the software can do.

Please give it a try! No worries if this software isn’t for you :) The easiest way is to try the demo. Other ways include installing the v1.0.0 release locally or with Docker. You can follow the installation instructions.

And this marks the beginning of Recipya’s journey. Contributions are encouraged and welcome. The roadmap is available here. Thank you!

Welcome

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I am thrilled to present the official website for Recipya! This recipe manager project is focused on simplicity and ease of use. It is meant for the whole family to use and enjoy.

You might wonder why I created such application when there are loads of them on the market already. The reason is that none of the solutions satisfied me. They were either too slow, difficult to install, had too many features I don’t want or need, or the website was not to my liking. There are no recipe managers written in my favorite programming language, Go, either. So I decided to give it a go (no pun intended) and create one of the best recipe manager programs out there. The road ahead will be challenging and long because the other solutions are much more mature than the state Recipya is in now. However, I do believe the effort will pay off.

Thanks to Go, you can rest assured that the software is well-tested, solid, easy to read and maintain, and simple to build and install. Development should be straightforward. Please read the developer guide if you wish to contribute with code.

Today’s main goal for the project is to move towards the v1.0.0 milestone. The issues left to complete before celebrating the first official release on GitHub.

Thank you for reading! If you believe in this project, then feel free to lend a hand. The community guide explains how you can help. You are not required to know how to code 😊