recipes.compare

Inspiration

We were inspired by the fact that college students often don't get proper nutrition due to a lack of knowledge of recipes and the belief that they can't make nutritious food with minimal ingredients.

What it does

By inputting the ingredients you have and the type of cuisine you desire, along with dietary restrictions, the algorithm returns what recipes can be made with them and the website with the full recipe. Unfortunately, due to a struggle in overcoming obstacles, our website cannot display it to the user directly, but it does display the knowledge in the backend console.

How we built it

Our team worked overnight with the help of YouTube tutorials to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to put the website together.

Challenges we ran into

The API required tokens that were hard to configure. Additionally, displaying output from JavaScript to the screen was a problem we could not figure out.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of establishing a basic interface with little to no initial HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge, and having fun along the way.

What we learned

We learned that websites are difficult to make and that software developers deserve a lot of credit. We also learned that breaks are important for productivity, and collaboration is key.