mealie

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Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor

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# Installation Guide

1. Get the code
git clone https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie

Downloads the entire project code from GitHub to your computer.

cd mealie

Moves into the project folder you just downloaded.

2. Docker

Easy Recommended
Prerequisites
  • Git Needed to download the project code from GitHub.
  • Docker Desktop Needed to build and run containers. Install it and keep it running in the background.
docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.dev.yml up -d --build

Runs the command against the services defined in the compose file.

โœ… Run docker compose ps to check the containers are Up. If the README mentions a port, open http://localhost:PORT in your browser.

3. Node.js

Easy
Prerequisites
  • Git Needed to download the project code from GitHub.
  • Node.js Node.js must be installed to use npm. The LTS version is recommended.
cd frontend

This project's files live in a subfolder, so move into it first.

npm install

Downloads and installs the libraries listed in package.json.

npm start

Starts the development/run server.

โœ… After running the command, open the address shown in the terminal (usually something like http://localhost:3000) in your browser.

4. Python

Easy
Prerequisites
  • Git Needed to download the project code from GitHub.
  • Python 3 On Windows, be sure to check 'Add Python to PATH' during installation.
pip install .

Installs the package published on PyPI directly โ€” no need to clone the source.

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Runs the Python script (or module).

โœ… If it runs without errors and prints output in the terminal, it worked.
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