Local Development Environment Setup

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/uocli/RecipeMate.git

• Create a virtual environment

cd RecipeMate
python3 -m venv venv

• Install the Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install the Node.js dependencies (Make sure you have Node.js installed)

cd frontend
npm install

• Build the frontend

cd frontend #ignore this if you are already in the frontend directory
npm run build

Note: If npm run watch is working, you can try that out to detect every change within the frontend/src folder. Otherwise, you have to run npm run build every time you make a change in the frontend/src folder.

• Run the Django server

cd ../backend # or cd backend if you are in the root directory
python manage.py runserver

If all goes well, you can access the application at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ locally.