cippero / nutrifoods

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NutriFoodS

Project Proposal

NutriFoodS is an app for checking the nutritional values of meals and ingrediants and saving them to your profile. API provided by Nutritionix.

Wireframes

Search for foods by using natural language or enter the name of the food and then specify an amount: Get nutritional info about your searched food: Sign up or login to save foods in your profile: Edit your profile:

Instructions

Enter meal/ingrediants and quantity directly into the search bar or select the food's name from the autocomplete and then enter the desired quantity to see a bubble with nutritional information. If you're registered and logged in, you can also save items and then view them in your profile.

Technologies and Tools

• Sublime
• Git & Github
• HTML5 & CSS3
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Bootstrap
• jquery
• EJS
• Auth/Bcrypt

Routes

CRUD	Route	Functionality
GET	/index	Renders app homepage
POST	/search	Populates autocomplete list
POST	/search/nutrients	Queries API for nutritional values
POST	/search/item	Save item to database
DELETE	/search/item/:id	Deletes item from database
GET	/auth/login	Renders login page
POST	/auth/login	Authenticate login credentials
GET	/auth/signup	Renders signup page
POST	/auth/signup	User creation route
GET	/auth/logout	User logout route
GET	/profile	Renders profile page
GET	/profile/edit	Renders profile edit page
PUT	/profile/edit	Updates user profile

Models

User Schema

Key	Type
name	String
email	String
password	String
height	Number
weight	Number
age	Number
sex	String
activityLevel	Number
timezone	Number
food	[foodSchema]

Food Schema

Key	Type
food_name	String
brand_name	String
serving_qty	Number
serving_unit	String
serving_weight_grams	Number
date	String
time	String
dateAndTime	Number
is_raw_food	Boolean
meal_type	Number
food_group	Number
ndb_no	Number
calories	Number
protein	Number
total_fat	Number
saturated_fat	Number
total_carbs	Number
fiber	Number
sugars	Number
cholesterol	Number
potassium	Number
sodium	Number
photo	String

Workflow

1. Created the backend routes.
2. Hooked up external API for getting food info.
3. Set up frontend functionality for interacting with info fetched from backend.
4. Styled the app.
5. Fixed bugs.

How to Improve

1. Improve the design.
2. Sort foods in profile by day, and show a total of nutrients per day.
3. Based on user dietary goals, calculate daily intake and show user how on track they are.
4. Edit saved foods.