To be fair, I wouldn’t want to do that, either. Sadly, I can’t expect my wife to download MongoDB Compass on her iPad, iPhone or work computer in order to browse recipes, set weekly meal plans, or add recipes. Right-clicking the image lets me ‘Copy image address’ and use it in my document Īll links point to so I’m confident they won’t break anytime soon. I used one recipe to get startedĮach box of ingredients comes with a one-pager. I need to deploy the program that makes all this happen to a server so that my wife and I can enter a URL and use the application from our mobile devices.I need to create URL endpoints that I can send requests to and subsequently receive data corresponding to my needs: list of all meals, ingredients or steps for a single meal, list of this week’s meals.I need to design and build screens whereby my wife and I can select meals and add to the week’s list, view ingredients, view cooking steps, and view the current week’s selected meals.I need to add said recipes individually, at least of the ones my wife and I particularly enjoy.I need to create a database that I can query for Blue Apron recipes, ingredients, and instructions.Yet, sadly, it does not make a public API available such that I could request a full list of recipes. Lastly, Blue Apron uses a Google Firestore database to store each of the recipes found in its cookbook. Nor does the app allow me to create my own weekly meal plans using recipes from its rich and expansive cookbook. It makes meal-planning, delivery scheduling, and order issue reporting as easy as I could hope.īut the app does not feature the same cookbook as is found on their website, at /cookbook.

But several were delicious, and we may want to buy our own ingredients to make them again.īlue Apron has a fantastically well-designed and useful mobile app. Over time, I have accumulated hundreds of these sheets, many for meals that my wife and I didn’t particularly enjoy. The sheet has all the information necessary to prepare the meal. I subscribe to Blue Apron, one of several fresh meal delivery services.Įach week, I receive a box containing the ingredients and three sheets of paper, one for each meal.

Why build this app? It would solve my problem

Blue apron recipes last week