Info

This project is a collaborate effort between students in various sections of the Lambda School curriculum. The scope of this project is for students to demonstrate mastery over materials learned in their various sections over a 4 day sprint.

UI1 - https://festive-sinoussi-8d2296.netlify.com/

UI2 - https://chefportfolio.netlify.com/

FrontEnd - https://chef-portfolio.netlify.com/

BackEnd - https://chefportfolio.herokuapp.com/

TDD

Proposal

• What problem does your app solve? The problem of not knowing what to cook or how to cook it. The problem of not easily having a medium to share your awesome recipes with the world.

• Be as specific as possible; how does your app solve the problem? It provides a place for people to share and explore each others posted recipes. It gives food bloggers an online presence to showcase their recipes to the world as well as a simple form to upload recipes to the site.

• What is the mission statement?

To showcase the work and expertise of professional chefs, allowing them to build their own online personal collection of recipes.

To connect culinary experts and food bloggers with everyday, aspiring chefs on an easy-to-use and accessible platform.

Features

• What features are required for your minimum viable product?

  • Onboarding process for a professional chef.
  • Login Page to Portfolio Page
  • Create/Edit Post Page
  • Home Page for non-logged in users

• What features may you wish to put in a future release?

  • Image Uploader
  • Video Uploader
  • User Accounts for saving favorites and rating recipes.

• What do the top 3 similar apps do for their users?

  • www.allrecipes.com, https://foodgawker.com, tasty.co
  • These apps do all the things we want to do and more. However, sometimes less IS more, and ads are annoying.

Frameworks - Libraries

• What 3rd party frameworks/libraries are you considering using? FE - React.js, styled-components BE - Node.js, Express, JSON Web Token UI - LESS, Bootstrap

• Do APIs require you to contact its maintainer to gain access? No

• Are you required to pay to use the API? No

• Have you considered using Apple Frameworks? (MapKit, Healthkit, ARKit?) No

Target Audience

• Who is your target audience? Be specific.

  • Chefs and Cooks looking to share recipes with the world.
  • Anyone who wants to explore new recipes.

• What feedback have you gotten from potential users?

  • Potential users like food.
  • Potential users don't like ads.

• Have you validated the problem and your solution with your target audience? How?

  • No, not really.